Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

11.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

12.

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

Stephanie Klein

13.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

14.

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

Manilius, Marcus

15.

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

Palmerston, Lord

16.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Horace

18.

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.

19.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

20.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

23.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

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

Hermes, Georg

25.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

26.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

28.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

31.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

32.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

33.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Montgomery, James

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Horace

38.

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

39.

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

40.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

41.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

42.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

43.

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

Picabia, Francis

44.

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

Charles II

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

Macdonald, George

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

50.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen