Quotes about Death
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
— Abraham Lincoln
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.
— Alistair Begg
Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.
— Alistair Begg
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.
— Samuel Rutherford
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
— Joseph Addison
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
— Herman Melville
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
— Paul Ricoeur
Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
— Billy Graham
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.
— Adrian Rogers
No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.
— David Jeremiah