Life & Death Sayings

All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others.

The greatest evil is to be unable to correct one's mistakes.

My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,

There can be no good without evil.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation.

The mind is a strange thing. It is a house with many rooms, and some of them are dark.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches and majority decisions... but by blood and iron.

The greatest cunning of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

I fear that I have been a bad boy, but I have not been a dull one.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I’ve never understood why people are so afraid of death. It’s the only thing that’s certain.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

I have certainly come to think that the dead are alive.

I will return to my house, to my country, to my books, to my loves, and to my death.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.