Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Horace

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

Bryant, William C.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Bible

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

11.

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

Stephanie Klein

12.

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

13.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

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

Epicurus

15.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

16.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

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

Farber, Dave

19.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

23.

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

Horace

24.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

26.

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

Mann, Thomas

27.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

28.

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

29.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

30.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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

Bronte, Emily

34.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

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

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

40.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

41.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

43.

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

44.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

45.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

46.

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

Craig Volk

47.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

48.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

49.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

50.

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

Donne, John