Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Craig Volk

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

3.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

4.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

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]

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6.

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

7.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

8.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

9.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

12.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

13.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

14.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

15.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

17.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

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.

19.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Bayly, Joseph

22.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

23.

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

24.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

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

27.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

28.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

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

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32.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

34.

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

Frida Kahlo

35.

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

Horace

36.

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]

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37.

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

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38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

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

43.

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

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

Donne, John

45.

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

46.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.