Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

10.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

14.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

15.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

16.

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

Bayly, Joseph

17.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

18.

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

19.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

20.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

21.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

22.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

27.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

28.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

31.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

32.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

33.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

34.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

35.

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

Picabia, Francis

36.

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

Woody Allen

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Berra, Yogi

39.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mann, Thomas

41.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

42.

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

David Assael

43.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

44.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

45.

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

Cocteau, Jean

46.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

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

Allen, Woody

49.

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.

50.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther