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Quotes About Death

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.
~ Martin Luther
School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.
~ Myla Goldberg
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
~ Richard Rohr
On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.
~ David Jeremiah
Death is only passing through God's other door.
~ Edgar Cayce
God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You must overcome death by finding God in it.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
~ Donald Cargill
God is the pain of the fear of death
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
~ Gabriel Vahanian
Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.
~ John Taylor
Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.
~ Billy Graham
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
~ Aldous Huxley
The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.
~ Billy Graham
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
God grants an easy death only to the just.
~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.
~ Thomas Watson
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
~ Nora Ephron