Quotes about Death

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

That's it?" Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?" No, not dying, Son. Living.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959

Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.