Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

3.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

4.

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

5.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

6.

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

7.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

8.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

9.

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11.

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

Frida Kahlo

12.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

Bible

14.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

15.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

17.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

23.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

24.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Gide, Andre

29.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

30.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

32.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

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

Plato

34.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

37.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

38.

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

Heidegger, Martin

39.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

40.

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

Matt Frewer

41.

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

Epicurus

42.

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

Becht, Ben

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

45.

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

46.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

Mitford, William

48.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.