Motivational Quotes

Death

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Epictetus

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

10.

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

Frost, Robert

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.

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

Miller, Joaquin

13.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

14.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

16.

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

Charles II

17.

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

Oscar Wilde

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

21.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

22.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

25.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

26.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

27.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

28.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

29.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

30.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

31.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

38.

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

39.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

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.

'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

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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

47.

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

Bhagavad Gita

48.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

49.

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

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh