Quotes about Death
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
- Song of Solomon 8:6
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
- Isaiah 6:1
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
- Isaiah 13:15
In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
- Isaiah 14:28
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
- Isaiah 22:2
The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Isaiah 26:14
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- Isaiah 28:15
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
- Isaiah 28:18