Quotes about Death
He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
— John Bunyan
On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.
— Watchman Nee
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
— Victor Hugo
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
— St. Augustine
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.
— Charles Spurgeon
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
— George Bernard Shaw
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
— William Law
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.
— CS Lewis
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
— Carl Jung
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
— Brennan Manning