Death Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

— Wendell Phillips

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality

— Wendell Phillips

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality

— Wendell Phillips

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

— Milan Kundera

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is…

— William Butler Yeats

“Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.”

— Jack L. Chalker

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

— Plato

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

— Charles de Gaulle

Men are immortal till their work is done.

— David Livingstone

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

— George Wald

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

— Herodotus

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting…

— Marguerite Yourcenar