Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Butler, Samuel

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Johnny Carson

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

Plato

11.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

12.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

13.

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

Horace

14.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

16.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

17.

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

Becht, Ben

18.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

19.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

22.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

26.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Havner, Vance

33.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

37.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

38.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

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

Heidegger, Martin

41.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

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

Donne, John

44.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

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

Young, Edward

46.

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

Forster, Edward M.

47.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

48.

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

49.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De