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Quotes About Death

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
~ Randy Alcorn, Heaven
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.
~ Doug Stanhope
Any woman's death diminishes me.
~ Adrienne Rich
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.
~ Isabel Allende, Paula
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
~ Isaac Watts
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
~ John Owen
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
~ Immanuel Wallerstein
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.
~ Jacob Grimm
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.
~ Guru Arjan
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
~ John Mellencamp
The living are just the dead on holiday
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
~ Amitav Ghosh
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
~ Anaxagoras
I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.
~ Danny Elfman
If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
~ Gautama Buddha
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
~ Sappho