Motivational Quotes

Death

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Death

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

John Scalzi

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Ken, Thomas

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

'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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

10.

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

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.

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

13.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

19.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Donne, John

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

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

Gide, Andre

28.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

Gray, Thomas

31.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

32.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

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

Keats, John

34.

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

35.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

36.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

37.

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

Bagnold, Enid

38.

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

39.

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

Berra, Yogi

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

44.

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

45.

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

Picabia, Francis

46.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Keats, John

49.

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

50.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De