Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

11.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Farber, Dave

15.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

16.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

18.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

19.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

20.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

21.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

22.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

23.

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

24.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

25.

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

26.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

27.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

29.

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

Becht, Ben

30.

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

Bayly, Joseph

31.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

32.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

35.

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

36.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

37.

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

Pamela Ribon

38.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

39.

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

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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

Gray, Thomas

44.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

45.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

46.

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

Charles II

47.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

48.

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

49.

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

Young, Edward

50.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George