Quotes about Death
But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby Dick; Chap 7 p36)
- Herman Melville
Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?
- Herman Melville
For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.
- Herman Melville
God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.
- Ellen White
The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.
- Jackie Pullinger
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
- George Bernard Shaw
We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.
- Rachel Held Evans
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
- Dorothy Sayers
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.
- Timothy Keller
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.
- Timothy Keller
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
- John Piper