Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

- Hugh Elliott

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Keats, John

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

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

10.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

11.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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

16.

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

Bryant, William C.

17.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

18.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

19.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

20.

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

21.

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

Frida Kahlo

22.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Milton, John

24.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

25.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

27.

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

Mitford, William

28.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

29.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

30.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

31.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

32.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

33.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

34.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

35.

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

36.

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

37.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

38.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

40.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

43.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

44.

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

45.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

46.

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

47.

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

Frost, Robert

48.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

49.

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

Horace

50.

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