Quotes about Death
How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue! 80 Who would not be that youth? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!8 —Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war. 85 —Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.
— Joseph Addison
Lila!" she said, wincing again. "Such language, honey! Your parents don't let you swear like that around them, do they?" Whoadie folded her arms. "Well, no, they didn't used to," she said. "But they both died in a hurricane when I was little, so now I get to say whatever the fuck I want.
— Ernest Cline
All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…
— Ernest Cline
What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore
— Ernest Cline
This was not how I wanted to die. Not even close. And then my ex-girlfriend fell out of the sky.
— Ernest Cline
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
— Ernest Hemingway
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
— Ernest Hemingway
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
— Ernest Hemingway
Resurrection does not have to do exclusively with what happens after we are buried or cremated. It does have to do with that, but first of all it has to do with the way we live right now. But as Karl Barth, quoting Nietzsche, pithily reminds us: "Only where graves are is there resurrection." We practice our death by giving up our will to live on our own terms. Only in that relinquishment or renunciation are we able to practice resurrection.
— Eugene Peterson
The terrible threat against life, he said in his book God Is Not Yet Dead, is not death, nor pain, nor any variation on the disasters that we so obsessively try to protect ourselves against with our social systems and personal stratagems. The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years."
— Eugene Peterson
Account no man happy till he dies.
— Euripides
If you can't be free from sin until you die, then Jesus isn't your Savior, death is.
— Bill Johnson