Quotes about Death
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
- Richard Sibbes
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
- CS Lewis
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
- Andrew Jackson
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
- Jack Kerouac
And now without redemption all mankind must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
- John Milton
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
- Max Lucado
Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
- Helen Fisher
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
- John Keats
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
- Albert Einstein
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- John Donne
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
- Ayn Rand