Motivational Quotes

Death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Craig Volk

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Foster, John W.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Cocteau, Jean

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Epicurus

13.

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

Publilius Syrus

14.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

15.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

17.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

18.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

19.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

20.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

21.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

22.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

23.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

25.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Bible

32.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

38.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

39.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

43.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

44.

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.

45.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

46.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

47.

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

48.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

49.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

50.

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

Gide, Andre