Quotes about Death
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
— Anne Lamott
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
— CS Lewis
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
— Cormac McCarthy
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
— Ernest Hemingway
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
— Euripides
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
— George Eliot
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
— GK Chesterton
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
— Malcolm X
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
— Marcus Aurelius
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
— Martin Luther