Death Quotes by George MacDonald

“The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.”

— George MacDonald

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

— George MacDonald

All that is not God is death.

— George MacDonald

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

— George MacDonald

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

— George MacDonald

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

— George MacDonald

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

— George MacDonald

“And earth was given back to earth, to mingle with the rest of the stuff the great workman works withal.”

— George MacDonald

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

— George MacDonald

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow...

— George MacDonald

The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.

— George MacDonald

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of…

— George MacDonald

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death.…

— George MacDonald

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its…

— George MacDonald

“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than…

— George MacDonald

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a…

— George MacDonald

“Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only…

— George MacDonald

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have…

— George MacDonald

“We weep for gladness, weep for grief; The tears they are the same; We sigh for longing, and relief; The sighs have…

— George MacDonald

“For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of…

— George MacDonald

“On a summer morning she woke to a sense of returning health. She had been lying like a waste shore, at low…

— George MacDonald

“But, sir, isn't death a dreadful thing?" asked Malcolm. "That depends on whether a man regards it as his fate or as…

— George MacDonald

“There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others:in the one case it is a continuous…

— George MacDonald

“what then is death? If it be a stopping of life, then that is which cannot be. But it may be only…

— George MacDonald

“I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or…

— George MacDonald