Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sophocles

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

10.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

14.

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

Darrow, Clarence

15.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

23.

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

24.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

28.

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

Hermes, Georg

29.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

32.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

34.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

38.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

Matt Frewer

41.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

45.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

46.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

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

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric

49.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

50.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John