13,737 Quotes About Death

A childhood never fully dies. Stories of life come up through cracks in the accounts, the spaces between death sentences, the pauses in obituaries, finding light and air to grow.

Meanwhile, the great ash would rest where she lay, and mosses would creep over her trunk, and tiny creatures make their homes her dim hollows. Even in death she was a link in the great chain of the forest's being.

The will to live is as intense in a weed as it is in a human.

What the sun compoundeth, fire analyzeth, not transmuteth. That devouring agent leaves almost always a morsel for the earth, whereof all things are but a colony; and which, if time permits, the mother element will have in their primitive mass again.

Mister Rogers took his viewers on this little journey to show that even in the face of death, things move ahead. That's the essential message as he sits by the fish grave. Rogers never told grieving children that everything will be all right: no such simplistic reassurances. Instead he shared his feelings about death and loss, and the extraordinary truth, reaffirmed repeatedly throughout the program, that life does go on.

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

Non credere che ci sia qualcosa di impossibile da realizzare in questa vita, i tuoi sogni saranno veri se sarai in grado di guardarli con gli occhi della verità

Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.

He’d never shaken angry fists at the Savior his mother had taught him to respect. But God had never hurt him before. Not like this.