Quotes about Death

What promise hath any unregenerate man to countenance him in this work? what assistance for the performance of it? Can sin be killed without an interest in the death of Christ, or mortified without the Spirit?

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'