Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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.

2.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

3.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

4.

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

Dickinson, Emily

5.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

6.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

7.

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

Bible

8.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

9.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

10.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

11.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

12.

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

Canetti, Elias

13.

'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

14.

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.

15.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

16.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

18.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

19.

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

20.

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

Bright, Grant M.

21.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

23.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

24.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

30.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

31.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

32.

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

David Assael

33.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

34.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

Charles II

37.

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

Craig Volk

38.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

39.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Picabia, Francis

42.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

44.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

Plato

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

47.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

48.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

50.

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

Diderot, Denis