The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. – Aeschylus
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. – B. R. Hayden
Everything that gets born dies. – Morrie Schwartz
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. – E. W. Howe
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. – Ernst Moritz Arndt
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. – Joseph Hall
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. – Errol Flynn
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. – W. H. Auden
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. – Carter Burwell
Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno
All architects want to live beyond their deaths. – Philip Johnson
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. – Anna Akhmatova
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Robert Bolt
For me, habit is just a synonym for death. – Juliette Binoche
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. – Adam Clarke
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. – John Greenleaf Whittier
Hell, madam, is to love no longer. – Georges Bernanos
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. – Barry Cornwall
