death Quotes

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.