Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

2.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

3.

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

Greene, Graham

4.

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

Fielding, Henry

5.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

6.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

7.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

8.

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

Woody Allen

9.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

10.

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

11.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

12.

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

13.

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

Gray, Thomas

14.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Bertolt Brecht

16.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

18.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

22.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

23.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

24.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

Diderot, Denis

26.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

29.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Beaumont, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

44.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

Bright, Grant M.

46.

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

Woody Allen

47.

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

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence