Death Quotes - Page 26

• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Dying, Worst

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• Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Inspirational Life, African American

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Sermons on Women of the Bible”, p.274, Hendrickson Publishers

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• You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!

  August Spies

  Faith, Future, Believe

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Black And White, Two, Rich Or Poor

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, God, Christian

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• When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Life, Lying, Men

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Courage, Art, Cancer

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Memories, People

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• A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

  Stewart Alsop

  Time, Sleep, Men

  Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

  Forrest Church

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Love and Death". Book by Forrest Church, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2008.

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• Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.52

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• It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

  Ouida

  Beautiful, Seems

  Ouida (1882). “In Maremma: A Story”

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• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Thoughtful, World

  1846 'The Philosophy of Composition', in Graham's Magazine, Apr.

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  It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Moving On, Wise

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

  John Galsworthy

  Love, Birthday, Age

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Love, Country, War

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• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

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• Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

  Ovid

  Looks

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• Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.54

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• What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

  Plutarch

  Suffering, Do Not Fear, Dies

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• Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Effectiveness, Destroying, Function

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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