Quotes About Death

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

The marvel of regeneration is the bringing of a soul out of spiritual death into spiritual life. It is a new creation, which is a bringing of something out of nothing.

Manton said: "Sin knows no mother but our own heart." "And sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death":

Had not the guilt of Adam's offense been charged to his posterity, none would die in infancy. Yet it does not necessarily follow that any who expire in early childhood are eternally lost. That they are born into this world spiritually dead, alienated from the life of God, is clear; but whether they die eternally, or are saved by sovereign grace, is probably one of those secret things which belong to the Lord.

Well did the Puritan Sibbes say, "God, to show His love to us, showed Himself God in this: that He could be God and go so low as to die" (Vol. 5, p. 327).

Both of these men had the sentence of death in themselves, and both prayed earnestly unto the Lord for a reprieve: the one wrote: "The Lord would not hear me," and died; but to the other it was said, "I have heard thy prayer", and his life was spared. What an illustration and exemplification of the truth expressed in Romans 9:15!—"For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Døden er det aller viktigste her i livet, og heller ikke den er særlig viktig (Folkelig visdomsord)

Busseier Rauno Korpela skysset flokken inn i bussen med en gravalvorlig oppfordring: – Det er best vi drar. Døden venter.

Samobójcy doszli wspólnie do wniosku, ?e chocia? ?mier? jest w ?yciu najwa?niejsz? spraw?, to w ko?cu nie jest ona a? tak bardzo wa?na.

Poor little corpses! It was too bad they were dead. He couldn't play with them. Even though they really stank. He couldn't stand the smell. They deserved to die for smelling so bad.

Mientras hay muerte - apuntó- hay esperanza. - ¿Es otra cita? - Es un chiste malo.

You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.

Felices los que mueren por dejallas, o los que viven sin amores dellas, o, por su dicha, llegan a enterrallas.

Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. La última carta la juega la Muerte.

En este oficio, pensó con una cínica mueca interior, el único día fácil es cuando estás muerto.

Un desafío, en fin, a la vida y también a la muerte, en espera de la carcajada final.

Lo cierto, piensa el joven mientras camina por semejante cementerio, es que no hay nada bello ni romántico en un soldado muerto. Eso queda para las pinturas de los museos, los versos de los poetas y la demagogia de los políticos. La realidad inmediata sólo es carne muerta, carroña pudriéndose al sol.

Dios hace cumplir sus leyes, y éstas incluyen la vida y la muerte

y él murmuraba amen al tiempo que ellos, para que no se sintieran tan solos cuando caían al suelo y morían. Pero sus ojos claros y fríos estaban atentos a las ondulantes filas de la caballería enemiga