Quotes about Death
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. It were better for thee to watch against sin, than to fly from death. If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow? To-morrow is an uncertain day; and how knowest thou that thou shalt have a to-morrow?
- Thomas a Kempis
Know thou of a surety that thou oughtest to lead the life of a dying man. And the more a man dieth to himself, the more he beginneth to live towards God.
- Thomas a Kempis
Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.
- Thomas Adams
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
- NT Wright
Love is as strong as death.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death." This
- Viktor E. Frankl
suffering. Take the fate of the sick—especially those who are incurable. I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in which he told a friend that he had just found out he would not live for long, that even an operation would be of no help. He wrote further that he remembered a film he had seen in which a man was portrayed who waited for death in a
- Viktor E. Frankl
Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
- Viktor E. Frankl
life, under any circumstances, never ceases to have a meaning, and that this infinite meaning of life includes suffering and dying, privation and death.
- Viktor E. Frankl