Quotes about Death
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
— Oscar Wilde
Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
— David Platt
Where all life dies death lives.
— John Milton
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
— Joseph Addison
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
— Mark Twain
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
— Henry Ward Beecher
Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
— Jeremiah Burroughs