Motivational Quotes

Death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

1.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

2.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

3.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

4.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

5.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

6.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

7.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

8.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

9.

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

10.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

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

Plato

12.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Palmerston, Lord

15.

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.

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.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

18.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

19.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

22.

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

John Scalzi

23.

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

Beaumont, Francis

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

31.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

33.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Forster, Edward M.

35.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

36.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

37.

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

38.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

39.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

47.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

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

49.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

50.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond