Billy Graham Quotes

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Death is Life's high meed.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?