Life & Death Sayings

The only way to be free is to accept the necessity of our own death.

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.

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.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

A man who is not afraid to die is not afraid to live.

I had been the author of unutterable evils.