Quotes about Death

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's life to others.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.

We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

The entire thrust of this season at the end of the church year is designed to bring us face-to-face with reality—reality about sin and death, reality about the human race, reality about God. Something ultimate has entered our world, something or Someone that calls us to attention, calls us out of our daily preoccupations and our routine points of view. That is what this season with its special biblical readings is designed to reveal.

It is the living significance of the death of Jesus, not the factual details concerning it as a historical event, that matters.