Quotes About Death

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

There's all kinds of ways to die, and most of them don't involve actual death, just the handing over of the soul to fear and anger and greed. Or despair. Very few people have the guts to deal with life on life's terms.

In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes -- homosexuality, sexual disease, and death -- about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.

A noisy bed-frame is the last sound many a man has heard. I do not intend to join the august company of deceased fools.

Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.

Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.

Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.

But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.

Nada es tan melancólico como la muerte de la belleza.

He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.

Did Christ die, or did He not die? Was His death worth while, or was it not? If His death was worth while, it follows that righteousness does not come by the Law. Why was Christ born anyway? Why was He crucified? Why did He suffer? Why did He love me and give Himself for me? It was all done to no purpose if righteousness is to be had by the Law.

Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.

what I am after in this dispute is to me something serious, necessary, and indeed eternal, something of such a kind and such importance that it ought to be asserted and defended to the death, even if the whole world had not only to be thrown into strife and confusion, but actually to return to total chaos and be reduced to nothingness.

Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

So if you wish to rejoice in Christ, for His sake you must bear sorrow, confusion, inward and outward vexations. The reason is that you cannot hold to Christ without offending the prince of the world. You cannot hold fast to the God of life without rousing against yourself the author of death.