Quotes about Death

On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.

No man ever saw God and lived; and yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him I shall never die

Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.

We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.