Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Randy K. Milholland

10.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

11.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

12.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

13.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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.

15.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Bible

17.

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

19.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

20.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

24.

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

Craig Volk

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

27.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

28.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

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

Palmerston, Lord

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

36.

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

A. Sachs

37.

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

Ken, Thomas

38.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

40.

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

41.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

42.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

44.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

45.

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

Butler, Samuel

46.

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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