Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

4.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

5.

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

Epicurus

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

8.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

9.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

11.

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

Montgomery, James

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

15.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

16.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

17.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

18.

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

Johnny Carson

19.

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

20.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

21.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

22.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

23.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

24.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

28.

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

Bryant, William C.

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

31.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

33.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

34.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Becht, Ben

36.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

37.

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

38.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

39.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

42.

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

Plato

43.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

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

45.

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

Addison, Joseph

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

48.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

49.

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

Frida Kahlo

50.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De