Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Becht, Ben

Best Quotes about Death

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bayly, Joseph

10.

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

11.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

12.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

14.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

15.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

16.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

17.

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

Sophocles

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

19.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

20.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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

Epicurus

26.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

27.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

28.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

29.

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

Johnny Carson

30.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

31.

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

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

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

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

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

Bible

39.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Bible

43.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

44.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James