Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Camus, Albert

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

15.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

16.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

17.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

19.

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

Diderot, Denis

20.

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

Craig Volk

21.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

22.

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

Young, Edward

23.

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

24.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

25.

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

Milton, John

26.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

29.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

30.

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

George Burns

31.

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

32.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

33.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

36.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

38.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

39.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

40.

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

John Scalzi

41.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

42.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

43.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

44.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Bayly, Joseph

46.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

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

49.

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.

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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