Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Craig Volk

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

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

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

Palmerston, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

23.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

24.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

25.

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

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

27.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

30.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

31.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

32.

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

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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

Donne, John

34.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

36.

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

37.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

38.

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

39.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

44.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

45.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

46.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Plato

49.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

50.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De