You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the read more

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or read more

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, read more

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.