Motivational Quotes

Death

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Dyer, Wayne

2.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

3.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

4.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

5.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

6.

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

Mann, Thomas

7.

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

Woody Allen

8.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

9.

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

10.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

11.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

12.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

13.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

14.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

15.

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

16.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

17.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

18.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

19.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

20.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

21.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

22.

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

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23.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

24.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

25.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

26.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

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.

28.

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

Euripides

29.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

33.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

34.

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

35.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

36.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

37.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

38.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

39.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

40.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

41.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

42.

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

David Assael

43.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

44.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

45.

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

Donne, John

46.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

48.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

49.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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50.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George