Quotes About Death

The price of freedom, death, is well known to everyone and it's the most feared one throughout all the generations.

The price of living is death, no one can escape paying this tax.

There are only two types of people in this world: those who die for freedom and those who died for their religions. Both are considered martyrs.

There is no death without life, but there can be life without death. Seems like death depends on life. Simply put, life goes on.

There is no death without life. Therefore, death depends entirely on life.

There is no difference between your death, my death or the death of Jesus. It's just death.

Time, life and death are mysterious, and they will remain to be so until the day we will come to possess the key of all illusions.

You can choose whatever you want, but God always makes that final decision. Including the day of your birth and your death.

Eliza wonders if death is not a sleep you can't wake up from but life reduced to one inescapable moment.

They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails.

Picture or no picture, people will keep killing each other using methods old and new—day after day, year after year, centuries of killing—until one way or another we're all dead, and all the guns and cameras of the world are just so much garbage lying in the dirt.

Life outside your ideal environment will destroy your potential because a wrong environment always means death.

You are the dark shape I find On nights of the spilling moon, Pale in the pool of heaven. — N. Scott Momaday, from "Revenant" The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2020)

The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

First, we break bread and drink wine together, telling the story of Jesus and his death, because Jesus knew that this set of actions would explain the meaning of his death in a way that nothing else--no theories, no clever ideas--could ever do.

since humans are made for the life that comes from God and God alone, to worship that which is not God is to fall in love with death. Here

Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated. Resurrection is not the redescription of death; it is its overthrow and, with that, the overthrow of those whose power depends on it.

Death is the last weapon of the tyrant; the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated.

It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death.

Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief could almost be defined as the form love takes when the object of love has been removed; it is love embracing an empty space, love kissing thin air and feeling the pain of nothingness. But there is no reason at all why love should discontinue the practice of holding the beloved in prayer before God.

Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death.

The story Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell is the story of how God became king—in and through Jesus both in his public career and in his death.

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.