Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Mitford, William

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

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Darrow, Clarence

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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.

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Epicurus

19.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

20.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

22.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

25.

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

Hermes, Georg

26.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

27.

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

Hook, Sydney

28.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

31.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

33.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

34.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

35.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

36.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

37.

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

38.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

39.

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

Aaron McGruder

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

David Assael

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

45.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

48.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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