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Quotes About Death

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
~ James Wolfe
This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!
~ Alexander Murdoch Mackay
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
~ William Blake
The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
God is dead and I am his replacement.
~ J.D. Robb, Conspiracy in Death
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
~ Charles Bukowski
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.
~ Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.
~ James V. Schall
He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
~ Alexander Pope
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
~ Anne Sexton
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
~ Barbara Tuchman
Oh God." said Magnus, "they're dead. They're all dead!
~ Cassandra Clare
I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
~ Charlotte Bronte
I'm only afraid of dying if I'm to be held accountable for what I did while living. If there's no God or reckoning, I'm like, whew!
~ Dana Gould
We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
~ A. N. Wilson
If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
~ Stevie Smith
It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
~ Thom Yorke
Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
~ Tullian Tchividjian