Quotes about Death
Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
— Hildegard of Bingen
The drunken man is a living corpse.
— St. John Chrysostom
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
— John Donne
The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
— Albert Camus
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
— William Faulkner
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
— Henry Ward Beecher
True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
— JC Ryle
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
— John Tillotson
Men die and they are not happy.
— Albert Camus
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
— Albert Schweitzer