Quotes about Death
Glory they most ardently loved: for it they wished to live, for it they did not hesitate to die. Every other desire was repressed by the strength of their passion for that one thing.
— St. Augustine
Death was originally proposed as an object of dread, that sin might not be committed; now it must be undergone that sin may not be committed, or, if committed, be remitted, and the award of righteousness bestowed on him whose victory has earned it.
— St. Augustine
And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
— St. Augustine
Why, being dead, do you rely on yourself? You were able to die of your own accord; you cannot come back to life of your own accord. We were able to sin by ourselves, and we are still able to, nor shall we ever not be able to. Let our hope be in nothing but in God. Let us send up our sighs to him; as for ourselves, let us strive with our wills to earn merit by our prayers.
— St. Augustine
When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
— Jack Kerouac
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
— Erica Jong
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
— Herman Melville
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
— John Milton
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
— William Hazlitt
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
— John Ortberg