Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

2.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

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

Macdonald, George

4.

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

Camus, Albert

5.

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

Ann Radcliffe

6.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

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

Greene, Graham

8.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

9.

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

Lucan, F. L.

10.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

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

Johnny Carson

12.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

13.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

14.

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

Miller, Joaquin

15.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

16.

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

17.

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

Picabia, Francis

18.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

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

Bhagavad Gita

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

26.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

27.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

28.

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

29.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

30.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

31.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

32.

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

33.

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

Horace

34.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

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

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

39.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

43.

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

Bronte, Emily

44.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

45.

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

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

48.

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

Mann, Thomas

49.

Death is the final wake-up call.