Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

1.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

3.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

4.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

5.

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

6.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

7.

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

Pamela Ribon

8.

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

Allen, Woody

9.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Milton, John

13.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

14.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

17.

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

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

Publilius Syrus

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.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

22.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

David Assael

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

33.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

34.

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

Johnny Carson

35.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

Charles II

37.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Thrale, Hester i

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

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

Forster, Edward M.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

44.

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

Lucan, F. L.

45.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

46.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

47.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.