Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hermes, Georg

Best Quotes about Death

1.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

2.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

3.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

4.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

5.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

6.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

7.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

8.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

9.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

10.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Plato

12.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

15.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

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

Ann Radcliffe

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

21.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Heidegger, Martin

26.

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

27.

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

Keats, John

28.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

30.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

37.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

38.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Young, Edward

40.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

41.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

Farber, Dave

44.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

49.

'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

50.

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

Camus, Albert