Quotes about Death

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

All the Scriptural metaphors about the death of the seed that falls into the ground, about losing one's life, about becoming the least in the kingdom, about the world's passing away—all these go on to something unspeakably better and more glorious. Loss and death are only the preludes to gain and life. It was a temptation to foreshorten the promises, to look for some prompt fulfillment of the loss-gain principle….

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

And yet I know that in her death, she has found the freedom she could not find in life. She is no longer confined to a room, a bed, and a body that no longer works.

The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.

Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,The vapors weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

There is a kind of life that leads to death. There is a kind of death that leads to life.

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.