Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Allen, Woody

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

Thrale, Hester i

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

10.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

11.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

12.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

13.

'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

14.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

Bertolt Brecht

18.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

19.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

20.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

23.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

Bayly, Joseph

27.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

31.

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

32.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

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

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Fromm, Erich

36.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

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

Darrow, Clarence

38.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

39.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

45.

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

Palmerston, Lord

46.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

49.

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

50.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean