Quotes about Death
He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
- Proverbs 19:16
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
- Proverbs 24:11
Two things I ask of You—do not refuse me before I die:
- Proverbs 30:7
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 2:16
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
- Ecclesiastes 3:2
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- Ecclesiastes 4:2
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15
For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
- Ecclesiastes 6:4
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Ecclesiastes 7:1
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:2
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
- Ecclesiastes 7:17