Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Frida Kahlo

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Woody Allen

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

10.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

11.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

12.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

13.

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

14.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

18.

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

19.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

20.

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

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

22.

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

Pamela Ribon

23.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

24.

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

25.

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

Craig Volk

26.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

31.

'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

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

34.

'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

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Ken, Thomas

38.

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

Woody Allen

39.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

41.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

43.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

44.

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

Auerbach, Red

45.

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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

47.

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

Gray, Thomas

48.

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

49.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

50.

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

Oscar Wilde