Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

We're all immortal until we die.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.