Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Butler, Samuel

2.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

3.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

4.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

5.

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

6.

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

Farber, Dave

7.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

8.

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

Epictetus

9.

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

Plato

10.

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

11.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

12.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

13.

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

14.

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

15.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Macdonald, George

20.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

21.

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

Horace

22.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

23.

'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

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

26.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

27.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

28.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

29.

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

Bronte, Emily

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Hermes, Georg

35.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

36.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

38.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

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

41.

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.