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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Hazlitt, William

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

11.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

12.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

14.

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

Frida Kahlo

15.

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

Farber, Dave

16.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

17.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

18.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

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

Horace

20.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

21.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

Marvell, Andrew

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

26.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

28.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Bryant, William C.

32.

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

33.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

34.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

42.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

43.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.