Quotes about Death
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
- George Eliot
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
- RC Sproul
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
- Herman Melville
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
- Thomas Jefferson
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
- Dennis Prager
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
See in what peace a Christian can die.
- Joseph Addison
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
- Thomas Watson
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
- Elton John
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
- Epictetus
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
- Dorothy Day
One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
- Anonymous