Motivational Quotes

Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Death

1.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

2.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

4.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

5.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

6.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

7.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

8.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

9.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

10.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

11.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

12.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

13.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Forster, Edward M.

15.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

16.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

17.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

19.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

20.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

22.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

25.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

27.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

29.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

30.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

31.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

32.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

33.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

34.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

36.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

37.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.