Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

3.

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

Allen, Woody

4.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

5.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

6.

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

Randy K. Milholland

7.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

8.

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

Oscar Wilde

9.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

16.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

23.

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

Stephanie Klein

24.

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

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

29.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

30.

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

Bronte, Emily

31.

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

32.

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

Epicurus

33.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Forster, Edward M.

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

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

Hermes, Georg

37.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

Keats, John

41.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

42.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

43.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

46.

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

47.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

48.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

49.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

50.

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