Quotes about Death
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
— John Donne
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
— Victor Hugo
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
— Ayn Rand
The world's bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can't wait to die.
— Ted Dekker
In living we die, in dying we live.
— Ted Dekker
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
— Mark Twain
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
— Samuel Johnson
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
— Aristotle
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
— Mark Twain
To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.
— Charles Spurgeon
Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
— Charles Spurgeon