Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

William Shakespeare

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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.

15.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

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

Marvell, Andrew

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

23.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

24.

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

Picabia, Francis

25.

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

26.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Frida Kahlo

28.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

29.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

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

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

33.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

34.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

39.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

45.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

46.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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