Quotes About Death

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.

Arriving at Baula, Jacob Wainwright, the scribe of the party, was commissioned to write an account of the distressing circumstances of the Doctor's death, and Chuma, taking three men with him, pressed on to deliver it to the English party in person.

Thus in his death, not less than in his life, David Livingstone bore testimony to that goodwill and kindliness which exists in the heart of the African.

What is the atonement of Christ? It is Himself: it is the inherent and everlasting mercy of God made apparent to human eyes and ears. The everlasting love was disclosed by our Lord's life and death. It showed that God forgives, because He loves to forgive. He works by smiles if possible, if not by frowns; pain is only a means of enforcing love. If we speak of strength, lo! He is strong. The Almighty; the Over Power; the Mind of the Universe. The heart thrills at the idea of His greatness.

To perceive others as fully human means to be saddened by the death of every single person, regardless of the population, group, or part of the world from which he comes, and regardless of our own personal acquaintance with him. If we accord him identity, then we must individualize his death [and] … if we accord him community, then we must experience his death as a personal loss.

He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death.

What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead

Germans needed to reduce their casualties "if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.

And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder? --- It's not the same, Cain mutters. --- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.