Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Farber, Dave

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

10.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

14.

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

Foster, John W.

15.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

20.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

21.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

22.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

24.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

25.

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

26.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

30.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

31.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

32.

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

Horace

33.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Craig Volk

37.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

38.

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

Milton, John

39.

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

Bayly, Joseph

40.

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

Hermes, Georg

41.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Byron, Lord

47.

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

48.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

49.

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

50.

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