Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Mann, Thomas

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

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

4.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

5.

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

6.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

7.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

8.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

9.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

10.

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

11.

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

Frida Kahlo

12.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

13.

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

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

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

Bright, Grant M.

17.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

19.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

Epicurus

21.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

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

23.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

24.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

25.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

27.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

28.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

29.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

31.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

32.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

33.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

39.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

42.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

44.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

45.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

46.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

47.

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

48.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

49.

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

Horace

50.

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