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

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

11.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

12.

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

13.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

14.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

15.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

16.

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

Palmerston, Lord

17.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

19.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

22.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

23.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

30.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

31.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Bible

34.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

John Scalzi

38.

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

Frost, Robert

39.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

41.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

42.

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

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

44.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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

47.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

48.

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

49.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

50.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?