Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

10.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Bagnold, Enid

12.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

13.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

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

16.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

17.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

19.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

20.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

22.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

Montgomery, James

28.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

31.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

32.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

33.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

36.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

37.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

38.

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

Eliot, George

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

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

Craig Volk

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

Keats, John

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

46.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

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.

49.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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