Quotes about Death

We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt.

If it were merely sin that existed, and not the resulting transience as well, contrition would be appropriate', said Athanasius, and goes on: `But God becomes human and subjects himself to "the law of death" so as to take away death's power over human beings and his creation, and in order to bring immortality to light.'16

I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my noblest powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.

The New Testament without the miracles would be far easier to believe. But the trouble is, it would not be worth believing. Without the miracles the New Testament would contain an account of a holy man—not a perfect man, it is true, for He was led to make lofty claims to which He had no right—but a man at least far holier than the rest of men. But of what benefit would such a man, and the death which marked His failure, be to us?

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.

Again Jesus cried out in a loud voice. Then he died. Then the curtain in the Temple split into two pieces. —MATTHEW 27:50—51

Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus rang the bell of our freedom.

Death breaks the union between the body and the soul but perfects the union between Christ and the soul.

In essence, engaging in sin is exchanging a short-term positive for a long-term negative, for after it's over sin stings us with the long-term consequences of death.