Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Milton, John

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Craig Volk

10.

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

Plato

11.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

13.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

15.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

17.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

18.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

20.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

21.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

'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

23.

'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

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

27.

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]

Bible

28.

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

29.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

30.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Pamela Ribon

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

38.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

39.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

43.

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

Lucan, F. L.

44.

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

Woody Allen

45.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

46.

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

Frida Kahlo

47.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

48.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

49.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

50.

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

Woody Allen