Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Sophocles

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

10.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

11.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

13.

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

14.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

15.

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

16.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

17.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

18.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

19.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Chandler, Raymond

22.

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

23.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

25.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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

27.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

32.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

33.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

34.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

36.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

37.

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

Marvell, Andrew

38.

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

Bhagavad Gita

39.

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

40.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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.

42.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

43.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

44.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.