Quotes about Death

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

Men die and they are not happy.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

Today we expect but one thing from our doctors: to make us better. The medieval doctor was trying to do a lot more than that. He was taking care of the soul as well as the body. Unlike modern doctors he did not try to stop a patient dying at all costs . . . rather, if death seemed inevitable, he was duty-bound to try and help him or her die in the best possible way for their immortal soul.

a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.