Motivational Quotes

Death

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bacon, Francis

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

Barker, Clive

11.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

15.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

16.

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

Euripides

17.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

18.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

19.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

20.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

22.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

23.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

24.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

29.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

30.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

32.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

34.

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

Plato

35.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

37.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Diderot, Denis

41.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

42.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

43.

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

Farber, Dave

44.

'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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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.

49.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

50.

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

Einstein, Albert