Top 44 Blessing Death Quotes
#1. He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.
Thomas Watson
#2. I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.
Joseph Hall
#3. What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
Colleen McCullough
#4. It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
Elie Wiesel
#5. Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part of the aging process and the human experience.
Brent Green
#6. At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#7. God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.
Thomas Watson
#8. Life's just a sacrifice, a ransom
We pay to Death for Love to save,
Which turns to be as great as handsome
To get a blessing from the grave.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#9. Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.
Sophia Lee
#10. No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Plato
#11. Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.
Socrates
#12. My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide.
Mia Kirshner
#13. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;
What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Alexander Pope
#14. There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
Seneca The Younger
#15. Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#17. One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa
blessing it rather than in love with it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.
Dallin H. Oaks
#19. The journey into death is such an important one that I believe each person deserves as much support as possible. The loved ones who decide to stay and vigil with the dying person receive, I believe, as much grace and blessing as the dying. It is truly a remarkable experience.
Megory Anderson
#20. You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?
Paramahansa Yogananda
#21. For what blessing may a man hope for but
An immortality in
The loving vigilance of death.
Robert Penn Warren
#22. Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.
Richard Baxter
#23. The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
Quentin Crisp
#24. It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.
King James I
#25. Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler
#26. Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
Richard Sibbes
#27. I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#28. And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
Boris Pasternak
#29. Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.
Alexander MacLaren
#30. Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
Seneca The Younger
#31. When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#32. I would consider it a great blessing, but some of us are cursed to love unwisely and do so until death.
Lucy Monroe
#33. The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.
Catherine Marshall
#35. Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.
Zhang Zai
#36. Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils ... all great, powerful souls love life.
Heinrich Heine
#37. No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
Dan Simmons
#38. Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all the worse. Should one kill the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#39. I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.
Giacomo Casanova
#40. Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Dorothee Solle
#41. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil ... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
Moses
#42. We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.
Stephen Cave
#43. Nobody knows what death is,
nor whether to man
it is perchance the greatest of blessings,
yet people fear it as if they surely knew
it to be the worse of evils.
Socrates
#44. Death might be a blessing if it means you never have to face this kind of grief.
Carol Cassella
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