Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Matt Frewer

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

Milton, John

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

10.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

12.

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

Plato

13.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

14.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

15.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

17.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

20.

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

Gide, Andre

21.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

22.

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

Randy K. Milholland

23.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

25.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

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

Auden, W. H.

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

David Assael

33.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

34.

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

Hook, Sydney

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

37.

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

Heidegger, Martin

38.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

39.

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

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

41.

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

Diderot, Denis

42.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

43.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

48.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

49.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

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

Bright, Grant M.