Motivational Quotes

Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

10.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

11.

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

12.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

13.

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

Milton, John

14.

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

Addison, Joseph

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

18.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

19.

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

20.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

21.

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

Frida Kahlo

22.

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

23.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

27.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

28.

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

29.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

30.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

31.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

32.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

33.

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

34.

'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

35.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

37.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

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

39.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Stephanie Klein

42.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

43.

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

Forster, Edward M.

44.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

48.

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

Epicurus

49.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

50.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.