Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

1.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

2.

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

Horace

3.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

4.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

9.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

11.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Miller, Joaquin

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

John Scalzi

21.

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

Farber, Dave

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.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

25.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Horace

30.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

32.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

33.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

34.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

36.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

37.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

38.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

41.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

42.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

45.

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

46.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

47.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

50.

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

Horace