Motivational Quotes

Death

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Woody Allen

2.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

3.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

4.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

5.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

6.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

7.

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

Macdonald, George

8.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

9.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

10.

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

Bible

11.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

12.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

13.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

Berra, Yogi

17.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

18.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

19.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

23.

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

24.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

25.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

26.

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

Milton, John

27.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

28.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

31.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

34.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

38.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

39.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

40.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

41.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

42.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

44.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

46.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

48.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

49.

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

Forster, Edward M.

50.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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