Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Picabia, Francis

2.

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

Chandler, Raymond

3.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

4.

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

5.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

9.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

12.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

19.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

22.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

23.

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

Frida Kahlo

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Lowell, James Russell

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

30.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

33.

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

34.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

35.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

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

Thrale, Hester i

39.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

40.

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

Milton, John

41.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

42.

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

43.

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

Mann, Thomas

44.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Havner, Vance

46.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.