Death Quotes

• No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

• He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Book
  • Reflections
  • Haunted

• Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • War
  • Death

• Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

  

  bell hooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Dying
  • Ache

• Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Death

• if you pass amnesty, that's it. It's over. Then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • America
  • Death

• Atheism is a religion of death. Though atheists make their own 'meaning' or 'purpose' while alive, ultimately atheism is all meaningless, purposeless, and utterly hopeless.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Death
  • Purpose

• Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Death

• Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Death
  • Heaven

• Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Needs
  • Atheism

• He that fears death loses the joys of life.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Life
  • Death

• Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Road

• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Children
  • Death
  • Christianity

• How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death

• I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.

  

  James Meredith
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Kitchen

• A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • Death

• When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Father

• Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

  

  Uesugi Kenshin
  • Death
  • Die
  • Wish

• While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Changing
  • Creates
  • Persists

• Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

  

  Frederick Buechner
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected to make things in, and the money you are expected to make them for - that is the death of creativity. Just because some things can be made very cheaply does not mean everything can be.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Hate

• Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Blink

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