Quotes about Death

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death?Who will stop the coming night?Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God's love, God's voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.