Motivational Quotes

Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

11.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

12.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

13.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

14.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

15.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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

Bible

17.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

18.

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

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

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

22.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Farber, Dave

24.

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

25.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

26.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

27.

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

Canetti, Elias

28.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

29.

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

30.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

34.

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

35.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

36.

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

37.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

39.

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

Carson, Johnny

40.

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

John Scalzi

41.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

42.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

43.

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

Horace

44.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

45.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

46.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

47.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

48.

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

Bible

49.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

50.

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