Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Ann Radcliffe

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Butler, Samuel

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

10.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

Mann, Thomas

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

18.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

19.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

25.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

26.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

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

Forster, Edward M.

30.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

31.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

34.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

35.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Plato

39.

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

Camus, Albert

40.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

41.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

42.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

43.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

44.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

45.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

Aaron McGruder

47.

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

48.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

49.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Lowell, James Russell