Quotes about Death
A glass breaking on its own portended death.
- Alice Hoffman
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Alice Walker
Sound like death approaching, angels can't prevent it.
- Alice Walker
Life is a plant that grows out of death.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
- Khalil Gibran
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
- Oscar Wilde
Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
- David Platt
Where all life dies death lives.
- John Milton