Quotes about Death
There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?
- Billy Graham
And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
- Carl Jung
I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.
- Charles Spurgeon
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
- Elbert Hubbard
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
- Elie Wiesel
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
- Ignatius of Antioch
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Frederick Buechner
He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
- Frederick Buechner
We try to fend off this world we yearn for where men live together as brothers because there is something in each of us that wants to live not for his brother but for himself. We fend it off because we know in our terrible wisdom that the price we must pay for it is death, the death of self and all the values of self, the death that must take place before the life can come.
- Frederick Buechner