Quotes about Death

Within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not - I am not only a casuality, I am also a warrior.

Death folds the corners of my mouth into a heart-shaped star. It sits on my tongue like a stone around which your name blossoms distorted. — Audre Lorde, from "Speechless," The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde . (W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition February 17, 2000)

Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world.

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

He who has no religious affection, is in a state of spiritual death, and is wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon his heart.