Motivational Quotes

Death

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Horace

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Bayly, Joseph

15.

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

16.

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

Chandler, Raymond

17.

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

Ann Radcliffe

18.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

19.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

20.

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

21.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Euripides

23.

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

Young, Edward

24.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

25.

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

Frida Kahlo

26.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

30.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

Aaron McGruder

32.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

33.

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

34.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Camus, Albert

38.

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

Bible

39.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

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