Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Bible

2.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

3.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

4.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

5.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

6.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

7.

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

8.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

11.

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

12.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

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

14.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

15.

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

Epicurus

16.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

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.

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Young, Edward

26.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

27.

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

28.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

33.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

34.

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

Milton, John

35.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

Miller, Joaquin

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

39.

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

40.

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

Keats, John

41.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

42.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

44.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

45.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

46.

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