Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Epicurus

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

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

Bagnold, Enid

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Nepos, Cornelius

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

12.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

13.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

14.

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

Carson, Johnny

15.

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

16.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

27.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

28.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

29.

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

30.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

31.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

32.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

33.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

34.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

36.

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

Young, Edward

37.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Fromm, Erich

40.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

42.

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

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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.

47.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

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

Allen, Woody

49.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

50.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee