Motivational Quotes

Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

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2.

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

Epicurus

3.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

4.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

5.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

6.

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

Fromm, Erich

7.

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

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8.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

9.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

10.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

11.

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

12.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

17.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

20.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

21.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

22.

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

Publilius Syrus

23.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

24.

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

Keats, John

25.

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

26.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

27.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

28.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

29.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

36.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

37.

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

38.

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

Woody Allen

39.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

40.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

44.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

45.

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

46.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

47.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

48.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.