Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Death

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.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

11.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

Randy K. Milholland

13.

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

14.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

17.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

19.

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

20.

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

Palmerston, Lord

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Woody Allen

24.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

25.

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

Bright, Grant M.

26.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

27.

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

28.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

29.

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

Ann Radcliffe

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

34.

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

Bible

35.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

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

Duffecy, James

39.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

40.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Young, Edward

42.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Montgomery, James

44.

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

Frost, Robert

45.

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

Picabia, Francis

46.

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

47.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John