
“Death with honor is better than a life of degradation.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.44 p. 192
General Quotes
Un bel morir tutta la vita honora.
Canzone 207 (c. 1348), st. 5
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
Un bel morir tutta la vita honora.
Ben mi credea passar mio tempo omai
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Death with honor is better than a life of degradation.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.44 p. 192
General Quotes
“No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
“T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.”
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.”
Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.
IX, 5, 6.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX
“If the soul does not exist, then stop believing in life and death as well.”
Conclusion, p. 539
The Coming of Age (1970)
“He will not do death the honor of taking it into account.”
Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 150
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
“I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning… as does death.”