Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

2.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

3.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

4.

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

Bagnold, Enid

5.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

6.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

7.

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

Hazlitt, William

8.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

9.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

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

12.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

13.

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

14.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

15.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

17.

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

Donne, John

18.

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

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

22.

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

23.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

24.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

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.

26.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

28.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

29.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

30.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

31.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

32.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

33.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

34.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

35.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

36.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

40.

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

Addison, Joseph

41.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

Fromm, Erich

43.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

44.

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

Auerbach, Red

45.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

48.

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

Cocteau, Jean

49.

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

A. Sachs

50.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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