It is said that men condemned to death are subject to…

“It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction…

— John le Carré

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

— Stendhal

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of…

— Blaise Pascal

“So there was no excuse; nothing whatever the matter, except the sin for which human nature had condemned him to death; that he did…

— Virginia Woolf

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his…

— Voltaire

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“And now, O men who have condemned me, I would fain prophesy to you; for I am about to die, and that is the…

— Socrates Plato

“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite…

— Anonymous

“Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“Colonel Aureliano Buendia smiled at her the same way as when he had first seen her with the bandage on that remote morning when…

— Gabriel García Márquez

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than…

— Plato

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Robert was found guilty of her murder, condemned to death and ‘chased out of the realm of France’ as Froissart puts it; there were…

— Desmond Seward

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

— Joachim Peiper