Quotes About Death

Whom the gods love dies young.

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

All our songs are about love, travel and death.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.