Inspirational Quotes on Death

“You will tell the others that I am going home a little sooner than I thought. Then tell them not to talk about the servant but to talk about the Savior.”

“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”

“A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”

“Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer the fear of death.”

“The people of God may have to taste a little of the waters of death's dark river, but Christ went to the very bottom of it, and rose again, and is alive for evermore.”

“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”

“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.”

“There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“It is when a man has no one to love him that he commits suicide. So long as he has friends, those who love him and whom he loves, he will live, because to live is to love. Be it but the love of a dog, it will keep him in life; but let that go and he has no contact with life, no reason to live. He dies by his own hand.”

“We do not picture the possessor of this carnal mind as in any sense a monster. We have said he may be high-toned, virtuous, and pure. The plant is not a monster because it is dead to the voice of the bird; nor is he a monster who is dead to the voice of God. The contention at present simply is that he is DEAD.”

“"Perfect correspondence," according to Mr. Herbert Spencer, would be "perfect Life." To abolish Death, therefore, all that would be necessary would be to abolish Imperfection. But it is the claim of Christianity that it can abolish Death. And it is significant to notice that it does so by meeting this very demand of Science--it abolishes Imperfection.”

“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”

“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.”

“A good conscience will save no man, wash away no sin, not lift us one hair's breadth towards heaven. Yet a good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.”

“Until we are willing to die, we have no right to live.”

“Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection, of all his joys.”

“I have seen many men and women of fashion die, and I never saw one of them die well. The trappings off, there they lay on the tumbled pillow, and there were just two things that bothered them, a wasted life and a coming eternity.”

“It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors.”