Quotes about Death
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
- Abbie Hoffman
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
- Brennan Manning
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
- Francois Rabelais
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
- Mark Twain
ETERNITY is a long time. FIRE is a terrible thing. The thought of eternal punishment, with fire, not only causes man to fear death, it often causes him to lose his reason. It destroys interest in life and makes happiness impossible.
- Napoleon Hill
Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)
- Charles Swindoll
But have eternal life." We are destined to die physically and we exist in a kind of living death in the meantime. While nothing will halt the process of decay, and nothing will prevent the end of physical life, God's grace will not allow death to reign supreme. Evil will not have the final word. Life—eternal, incorruptible, abundant life—is offered to all who will receive it through faith.
- Charles Swindoll
I don't know why people have to die, Son. I don't think death was what God wanted. But it sure was part of somebody's plan. I believe God is big enough and powerful enough to use it. There's more going on here than we can see.
- Chris Fabry
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
- NT Wright
People who die bad don't stay in the ground.
- Toni Morrison
You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
- Toni Morrison
Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it.
- Toni Morrison