Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Death

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

John Scalzi

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

10.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

14.

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

15.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

17.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

18.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

28.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

29.

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

30.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

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

Barker, Clive

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

36.

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.

37.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

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

Dryden, John

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

42.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Allen, Woody

44.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

46.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

47.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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