Quotes about Life
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
— Phillips Brooks
O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
— John Milton
Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.
— Horatius Bonar
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
— Samuel Johnson
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.
— Billy Graham
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
— George Eliot
I have only one curiosity left: death.
— Coco Chanel
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
— William Hazlitt
The way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.
— Billy Graham
Violence and war lead only to death.
— Pope Francis
We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.
— Philip Yancey