Motivational Quotes

Death

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

1.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

2.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

3.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

4.

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

5.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

6.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

7.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

8.

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

Butler, Samuel

9.

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

Charles II

10.

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

Fromm, Erich

11.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

14.

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

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

17.

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

Marvell, Andrew

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

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

23.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

24.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Young, Edward

26.

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

Auden, W. H.

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

Keats, John

29.

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

30.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

31.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

32.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

33.

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

Epicurus

34.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

37.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

41.

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

42.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

43.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

44.

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

Woody Allen

45.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

46.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

47.

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

48.

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

Bagnold, Enid

49.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

50.

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

Ann Radcliffe