Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Thrale, Hester i

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

11.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

12.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

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

Palmerston, Lord

14.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Young, Edward

17.

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

Dryden, John

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

20.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

21.

'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

22.

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

23.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

24.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

28.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

29.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

30.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

33.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

34.

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

35.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

36.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

37.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

39.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

40.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

41.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

42.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.