Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Diderot, Denis

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

12.

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

13.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

14.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

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

Mann, Thomas

18.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

20.

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

David Assael

21.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

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

23.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

26.

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

27.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

33.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

34.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

35.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Gray, Thomas

37.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

38.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

39.

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

Horace

40.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

41.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

42.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

44.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

45.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

46.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

50.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman