Quotes about Death

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For 'this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter'.

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history', he designates the one; with the term 'death', the other.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?