Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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.

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

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

10.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

14.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

16.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

17.

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

18.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

19.

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

Plato

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

25.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

26.

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

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

34.

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

35.

'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

36.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

37.

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

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

Beaumont, Francis

40.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

41.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

45.

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

Young, Edward

46.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

47.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

49.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert