Motivational Quotes

Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Gide, Andre

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Donne, John

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

10.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

12.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

15.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

20.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

21.

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

Fromm, Erich

22.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

25.

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

26.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

A. Sachs

28.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

35.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

36.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

37.

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

38.

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

Becht, Ben

39.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

43.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

48.

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

Hermes, Georg

49.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

50.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz