Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

10.

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

11.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

12.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

19.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

20.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

21.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

22.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

23.

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

24.

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

Craig Volk

25.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

30.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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.

32.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Fromm, Erich

37.

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

Lucan, F. L.

38.

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

Charles II

39.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

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

Berra, Yogi

41.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

44.

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

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

Milton, John

46.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

48.

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

Euripides

49.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

50.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich