Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Stephanie Klein

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

10.

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

Charles II

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

15.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

17.

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

18.

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

Craig Volk

19.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Craig Volk

22.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

23.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

24.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

27.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

28.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

29.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

34.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

35.

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

Matt Frewer

36.

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

37.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

38.

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

39.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

40.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

41.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

42.

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

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

46.

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

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia