Quotes about Death
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
— Publilius Syrus
Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.
— Charles Spurgeon
What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?
— Francis de Sales
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
— George Eliot
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
— RC Sproul
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
— Herman Melville
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
— Thomas Jefferson
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
— Dennis Prager
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson