Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

10.

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

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

13.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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.

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

David Assael

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

21.

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

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

24.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

27.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

28.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

29.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

30.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

31.

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

32.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

33.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

Young, Edward

37.

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

38.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

39.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

41.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

42.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

43.

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.

44.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

45.

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

46.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

Fromm, Erich

49.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

50.

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