Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Craig Volk

2.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Hook, Sydney

4.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

5.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

6.

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

7.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

8.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

9.

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

Randy K. Milholland

14.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

15.

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

Bible

16.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

17.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

18.

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

19.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

20.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

21.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

24.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

25.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Bible

27.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Craig Volk

30.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

32.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

33.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

35.

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

Greene, Graham

36.

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

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

41.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

42.

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

43.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

44.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

47.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

48.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

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

50.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis