Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

15.

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

16.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

17.

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

18.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

25.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

26.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

29.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

30.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

32.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

33.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Eliot, George

37.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

38.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

42.

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

Woody Allen

43.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Addison, Joseph

45.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

49.

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

Sophocles

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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