Motivational Quotes

Death

A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Frost, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

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

16.

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

Horace

17.

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

18.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

19.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

22.

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

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

24.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

30.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

31.

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

Edith Sitwell

32.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

33.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

34.

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

35.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

39.

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

40.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

41.

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

Montgomery, James

42.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

45.

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

46.

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