Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bayly, Joseph

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Epicurus

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

Woody Allen

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Heidegger, Martin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

17.

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

Bible

18.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

19.

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

20.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

21.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

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

Dryden, John

23.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

26.

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

27.

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

28.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

33.

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

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

36.

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

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

42.

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