Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

- Ellis, Alice Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bible

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

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

10.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

11.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

13.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

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

16.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

17.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

19.

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.

20.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

Frida Kahlo

22.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Randy K. Milholland

26.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

27.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

28.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

29.

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

30.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

32.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

33.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

34.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

37.

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

Woody Allen

38.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

42.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

43.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

44.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

45.

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

46.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.