Motivational Quotes

Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Barker, Clive

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hermes, Georg

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

10.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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.

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

18.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

19.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

23.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

25.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

26.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

27.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

28.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

Bible

31.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Foster, John W.

33.

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

34.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

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

36.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

37.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

38.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

39.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

40.

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

Bible

41.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

42.

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

Chandler, Raymond

43.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

44.

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

Woody Allen

45.

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

46.

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

Euripides

47.

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

Mann, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horace