Quotes about Death
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
- George Eliot
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
- GK Chesterton
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
- Malcolm X
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
- Marcus Aurelius
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
- Martin Luther
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
- Publilius Syrus
Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.
- Charles Spurgeon
What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?
- Francis de Sales
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.
- Robert Louis Stevenson