Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Frida Kahlo

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Plato

10.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

Keats, John

12.

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

13.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

14.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

15.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

17.

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

Woody Allen

18.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

19.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

20.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

23.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

24.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

25.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

27.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

28.

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

Becht, Ben

29.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

32.

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

David Assael

33.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

36.

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

Carson, Johnny

37.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

38.

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

Addison, Joseph

39.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

40.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

Epicurus

45.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

46.

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

47.

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

Publilius Syrus

48.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

50.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.