Quotes
Quotes about Man
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may beâI hope it isâredemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
