Top 100 Man Dies Quotes
#1. When a man dies, his death dies with him.
Marty Rubin
#2. It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song
Jon Bon Jovi
#3. When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#4. There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
James Runcie
#5. When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.
Anne Michaels
#6. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.
Mas'udi
#7. Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
John Osborne
#8. Race preservation is a myth ... a myth that you all have lived by - a sordid thing that has arisen out of your social structure. The race ends every day. When a man dies the race ends for him - so far as he's concerned there is no longer any race.
Clifford D. Simak
#9. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer
#10. When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne
#11. A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.
Emmet Fox
#12. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
James Boswell
#13. We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, - this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;
Alexandre Dumas
#14. Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.
Dwight L. Moody
#16. ...only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself.
Colum McCann
#17. When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!
Eiichiro Oda
#18. The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.
Samuel Smiles
#19. A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.
Aeschylus
#20. You know that African proverb 'When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground'? When Alice dies," Tom said, "it will be like a library burning.
Marja Mills
#21. No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
Oscar Wilde
#23. We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.
Francis Of Assisi
#24. Only, the working-man dies in hospital when the last term of his stunted growth expires; whereas the man of the middle class is set upon living, and lives on, but in a state of idiocy. You
Honore De Balzac
#25. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing.
Ayn Rand
#26. Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.
Leonid Andreyev
#27. Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
Homer
#28. When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
E.W. Howe
#29. When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
Charles Peguy
#31. The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny
Wole Soyinka
#32. The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#33. Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
Simone De Beauvoir
#34. A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.
Wolfgang Borchert
#36. Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
Jane Austen
#37. When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
Aeschylus
#39. For there will be no memory of the wise man or of the fool; in the days to come all will be forgotten, and alas, the wise man dies the same death as the fool!
Anonymous
#40. When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
Spartacus
#41. A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.
Erri De Luca
#42. He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
Frederick Buechner
#43. All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
Annie Besant
#44. If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.
Stephen Jay Gould
#45. When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
Chinua Achebe
#47. And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
Dan Aykroyd
#48. People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.
Ogden Nash
#49. When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
Joseph Stalin
#50. We all stand before the judge at some point, and the way a man dies is no different than how he decides to live life. You just remember that when your time comes.
Johnny Stone
#52. Chief Shippy stands frozen, holding his breath, exhaling with relief as the young man dies, the gun smoke slowly moving across the room, like a school of fish.
Aleksandar Hemon
#53. When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.
Elliott Chaze
#54. Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.
Pablo Escobar
#55. Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
Herodotus
#56. Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
Henry Ward Beecher
#57. Ever man dies, but not every man truly lives
Ralph Barger
#59. A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
Andre Simon
#61. Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
Walter Scott
#62. A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies.
Tor Udall
#65. A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
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Andrzej Sapkowski
#69. The man dies in all those that keep silent.
Wole Soyinka
#70. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
Robert Emmet
#72. If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.
Spike Milligan
#73. The old men know when an old man dies.
Ogden Nash
#74. No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
Michel De Montaigne
#75. It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
Robert Baden-Powell
#76. The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
Charles Farrar Browne
#77. No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.
Diana Gabaldon
#78. Every man dies, not every man really lives" ... William Wallace
H.E. Kline
#79. An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.
Frank Miller
#80. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
#81. As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.
Rod Serling
#82. That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#83. A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.
Hani
#84. An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.
John C. Maxwell
#85. The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
Orson Welles
#87. At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
Vasily Grossman
#88. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
#89. If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.
Yoshida Shoin
#90. Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.
Anne Carson
#91. The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.
Andrew Carnegie
#92. What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
#93. To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
Swami Vivekananda
#95. The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.
Tom Hunter
#96. I, I am he c who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of d man who dies,
Anonymous
#97. There are three sayings I live by, and one of them is 'The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.' That's what losing a job is like. That's why we have to bring them back.
Ken Hendricks
#98. The king, the priest, the rich man - who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers.
George R R Martin
#99. To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
Samuel Beckett
#100. Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.
James Bryant Conant
