Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

2.

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

Berra, Yogi

3.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

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

Keats, John

6.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

7.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

8.

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

Epictetus

9.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

17.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

18.

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

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

23.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

24.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

25.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

Ken, Thomas

27.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

30.

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

31.

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

Heidegger, Martin

32.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

36.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

37.

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

38.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

39.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

40.

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

Plato

41.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

42.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

44.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

Addison, Joseph

46.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

47.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

48.

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

49.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

50.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas