Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Young, Edward

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

Bacon, Francis

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

13.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

14.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Heidegger, Martin

17.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

18.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

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

20.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Sophocles

23.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Picabia, Francis

25.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

26.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Macdonald, George

29.

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

Keats, John

30.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

Mann, Thomas

33.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

34.

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

Bible

35.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

37.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

38.

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

Craig Volk

39.

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

Cocteau, Jean

40.

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

41.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

42.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

46.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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