Quotes About Death

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.