Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Eliot, George

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Randy K. Milholland

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

10.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

12.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

18.

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

19.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

24.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

25.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

27.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

30.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Greene, Graham

32.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

33.

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

Hook, Sydney

34.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

35.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

36.

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

Allen, Woody

37.

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

David Assael

38.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

39.

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

Bible

40.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

41.

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

Luther, Martin

42.

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

43.

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

44.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

47.

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

48.

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

49.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

50.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John