Quotes about Death
In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
— Thomas Cranmer
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
— Wendell Berry
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
— Etty Hillesum
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
— Michelangelo
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
— Dante Alighieri
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
— Khalil Gibran
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
— Virginia Woolf
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
— John Stott
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
— Rick Warren
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
— Laurence Sterne
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
— Emily Bronte