Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Death

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Horace

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

11.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

12.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

13.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

14.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Canetti, Elias

18.

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

19.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

20.

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

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

26.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

27.

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

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

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

30.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Stephanie Klein

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

38.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

40.

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.

41.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

43.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

44.

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

45.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

46.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

48.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

49.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

50.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben