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Quotes About Death

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.
~ William Butler Yeats
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
~ William Mountford
Why, thou owest god a death.
~ William Shakespeare
By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next
~ William Shakespeare
There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.
~ Young-Ha Kim
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Oh God, Oh God we're all gonna die doesn't really fit the definition of banter, now does it?
~ Lilith Saintcrow
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
~ Margaret Atwood
Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.
~ Martin Luther
I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.
~ Michael Bassey
Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
~ Mother Teresa
Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
~ Peter Porter
The great god Pan is dead.
~ Plutarch
May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.
~ Pope Francis
Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.
~ Radhanath Swami
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.
~ Ram Dass
The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!
~ David Berg
Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option.
~ Dov Davidoff
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
~ Eugenie de Guerin
When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
~ Harlan Ellison
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.
~ Ingmar Bergman
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau