Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frida Kahlo

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fielding, Henry

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

13.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

14.

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

15.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

17.

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

Woody Allen

18.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

20.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

21.

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.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

24.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

25.

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

26.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

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

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

35.

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

Forster, Edward M.

36.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

41.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

44.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Craig Volk

46.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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.

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

50.

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