~1 min read • Updated Dec 15, 2025
Beautiful Quotes from Symphony of the Dead
"Man does not live only by water, bread, sleep, and desire. He lives by work and love. If you take work and love from him, you face a moving corpse."
"If humans could live without fear, they would need nothing else."
"We are born dead from childhood, and life is nothing but carrying the heavy burden of this deadness."
"Life is like an unfinished symphony; each person only has the chance to play one movement."
"Destiny is a word cowards use to put the blame for their actions upon it."
"Pain is the common language of all humans."
"When everything is in chaos, the only thing you can do is watch."
"I always thought there was only one kind of loneliness in the world, but now I know loneliness has many forms."
"The greatest sin is forgetting."
"Love? Love means understanding all of another’s sufferings and still loving them."
"Sometimes one wishes to take his own hand and leave. To go and see all the places he has missed."
"Perhaps love is the last thing that saves man from falling."
"Death is the only certainty of life. Everything else is negotiable."
"We were not condemned to speak, nor condemned to listen; we were condemned to live."
Written & researched by Dr. Shahin Siami