Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- A. Sachs

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Forster, Edward M.

2.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

4.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

5.

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

6.

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

7.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

8.

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

9.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

10.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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

14.

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

Dickinson, Emily

15.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

16.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

17.

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

18.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Foster, John W.

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

23.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

24.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

25.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

Cocteau, Jean

28.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

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

Gray, Thomas

34.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

35.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

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

Addison, Joseph

37.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

38.

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

Frida Kahlo

39.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

40.

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

Montgomery, James

41.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

42.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

43.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

45.

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

46.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

Hook, Sydney

49.

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

50.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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