Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Horace

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Epicurus

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

12.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

13.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

14.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

16.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

17.

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

18.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

19.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

23.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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.

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

Bhagavad Gita

26.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

Farber, Dave

30.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

31.

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

32.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

33.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

34.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

35.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

37.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Keats, John

40.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

41.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

42.

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

Craig Volk

43.

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

Hermes, Georg

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

45.

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

46.

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

Frost, Robert

47.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

48.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

49.

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

50.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord