Quotes about Death
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
— Khalil Gibran
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
— Oscar Wilde
Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
— David Platt
Where all life dies death lives.
— John Milton
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
— Joseph Addison
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
— Mark Twain
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
— Henry Ward Beecher