Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Publilius Syrus

2.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

3.

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

4.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

5.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

6.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

7.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

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

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Keats, John

15.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

17.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

18.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

19.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

20.

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

Ken, Thomas

21.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

22.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

Lucan, F. L.

24.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Woody Allen

28.

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

Lowell, James Russell

29.

'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

30.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

31.

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

32.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

35.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

36.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

37.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

38.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

39.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

40.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

41.

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

Barker, Clive

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

46.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

47.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

48.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

49.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

50.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare