Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Byron, Lord

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

10.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

11.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

13.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

14.

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

15.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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

28.

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

29.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

30.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

Chandler, Raymond

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

36.

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

Craig Volk

37.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

38.

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

40.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

41.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

46.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

47.

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

48.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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

Euripides