Motivational Quotes

Death

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Dryden, John

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

16.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

17.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

18.

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

Epicurus

19.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

22.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Picabia, Francis

26.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

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

28.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

29.

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

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

31.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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

Berra, Yogi

34.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

41.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

42.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

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

45.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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

47.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

48.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

49.

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

Foster, John W.

50.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean