Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Byron, Lord

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

Auerbach, Red

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

10.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

11.

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

12.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

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

14.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

15.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

16.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

17.

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

Addison, Joseph

18.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

19.

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

20.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

22.

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

Ann Radcliffe

23.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

24.

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

25.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

26.

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

Lowell, James Russell

27.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

32.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

35.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

42.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

43.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

44.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

45.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

47.

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

48.

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

Hook, Sydney

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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

Donne, John