Quotes about Death

For, humanly speaking, death is the last thing of all; and, humanly speaking, there is hope only so long as there is life. But Christianly understood death is by no means the last thing of all, hence it is only a little event within that which is all, an eternal life; and Christianly understood there is in death infinitely much more hope than merely humanly speaking there is when there not only is life but this life exhibits the fullest health and vigor.

By Thy birth, and by Thy Cross, Rescue him from endless loss; By Thy death and burial, Save him from a final fall; By Thy rising from the tomb, By Thy mounting up above, By the Spirit's gracious love, Save him in the day of doom.

In that Manhood crucified; And each thought and deed unruly Do to death, as He has died. Simply to His grace and wholly Light and life and strength belong, And I love, supremely, solely, Him the holy, Him the strong.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

A glass breaking on its own portended death.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Sound like death approaching, angels can't prevent it.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.