Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

1.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

3.

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

Lowell, James Russell

4.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

7.

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

Butler, Samuel

8.

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

Camus, Albert

9.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

10.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

13.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

14.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

18.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

19.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

20.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

21.

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

Miller, Joaquin

22.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

23.

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

24.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

27.

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

Gide, Andre

28.

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

Hermes, Georg

29.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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

32.

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

Hook, Sydney

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

36.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

39.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

40.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

41.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

42.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

43.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

44.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

45.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

46.

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

47.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

48.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

49.

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

Bacon, Francis

50.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.