Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

2.

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

Bright, Grant M.

3.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

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

5.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

6.

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

Epicurus

7.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

8.

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

9.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

10.

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

Milton, John

11.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

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

Young, Edward

17.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

19.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Heidegger, Martin

24.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Marvell, Andrew

27.

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

Woody Allen

28.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

29.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

30.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

31.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

32.

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

33.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

34.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

40.

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

Randy K. Milholland

41.

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

Donne, John

42.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.