Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

10.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

Euripides

13.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

14.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

19.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

24.

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

25.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

27.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

28.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

32.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

33.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

34.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

37.

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

38.

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

Foster, John W.

39.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

40.

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

Randy K. Milholland

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

43.

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

Thrale, Hester i

44.

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

45.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

46.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

47.

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

48.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

49.

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.

50.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider