Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

2.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

3.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

4.

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

5.

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

Forster, Edward M.

6.

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

Bible

7.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

9.

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

Donne, John

10.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

11.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

12.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

13.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

16.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

18.

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

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Manilius, Marcus

22.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

23.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

27.

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

28.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

29.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

30.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

'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

32.

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.

33.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

35.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

37.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

38.

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

Matt Frewer

39.

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

40.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

45.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

46.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

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

Camus, Albert

50.

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.