Quotes about Death
The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
— Elie Wiesel
The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the world does not want to hear at any price. For the world wants to live and rise again before it dies, while the love of Christ wants to die in order to rise again in the form of God on the other side of death, indeed, IN death.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Every kind of integralism, open or disguised, is contrary in principle to true catholicity, which can win to itself and comprise all things only if it delivers itself up and dies like the seed to rise again.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Word, then, came into the world - came to what was his, but those who were his did not receive him. He beamed into the gloom, but the darkness turned away. Thus had love's revelation to choose a struggle of life and death. God came into the world, but a bristling barrier of spears and shields was his welcome. His grace began to trickle, but the world made itself supple and impenetrable, and the drops fell to the ground.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
For many of us, we will come to the point where death will be the only healer for the pain which our lives will have come to contain.
— Harold S. Kushner
deaths of despair escalating in terrifying ways as people struggled with the dislocation and isolation that the pandemic had caused.
— Jane Goodall
I am not afraid of death, Abigail. I am afraid that I might draw back and not be bold in proclaiming the gospel." He hesitated, then said, "And I am afraid that I might not stand firm. That under the heel of the enemy, in pain, I might deny my Lord.
— Janette Oke
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde
The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice.
— Oscar Wilde
When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.
— Oscar Wilde