Motivational Quotes

Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Randy K. Milholland

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hermes, Georg

15.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

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

19.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

24.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

29.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

30.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

32.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

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

35.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

36.

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

Keats, John

37.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

38.

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

Bible

39.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

40.

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

Bayly, Joseph

41.

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

Canetti, Elias

42.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

43.

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

Frida Kahlo

44.

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

Picabia, Francis

45.

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

46.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

47.

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

48.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

50.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De