Life & Death Sayings

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.

The truth is a powerful thing. It can set you free, or it can destroy you.

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

There's a remedy for all things but death.

The human race is a monotonous affair. What one does, the other does, and what one suffers, the other suffers.

I had been the author of unutterable evils.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The only way to understand life is to live it, and the only way to understand death is to die.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

I am a devil, and you, my friend, are a demon.

I am a very ambitious man, and I want to be famous, even after my death.

I don't mind dying, but I hate to leave my friends.

The world is before you, and you need not take it, or suffer it, for what it is. You can also make it what it will be.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

We are born astride of a grave, and a hellish light gleams for a instant, then it's night once more.

I am still the way I was in Florence: I do not think of death, nor of eating, nor of drinking.

Women are machines for suffering.

I have such a fear of not being able to finish what I have undertaken.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries—for heavy ones they cannot.

I am not afraid of death because I do not know what it is.