Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Death

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

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

David Assael

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

Macdonald, George

11.

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

Bayly, Joseph

12.

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

Canetti, Elias

13.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

Bright, Grant M.

20.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

21.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

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

Hermes, Georg

25.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

27.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

28.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

31.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

32.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

34.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

36.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

37.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

39.

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

Matt Frewer

40.

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

41.

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

Hook, Sydney

42.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

43.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

48.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

49.

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

Barker, Clive

50.

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.