Quotes about Death
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.
- Horatius Bonar
Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.
- Paul Washer
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
- Khalil Gibran
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
- William Saroyan
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.
- DL Moody
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
- John Calvin
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
- John Owen
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
- Catherine of Siena