Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Keats, John

10.

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

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

Bertolt Brecht

12.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

13.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

14.

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

Keats, John

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

16.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

17.

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

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

20.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

23.

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

John Scalzi

24.

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

25.

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

Craig Volk

26.

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

27.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

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

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

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

Hermes, Georg

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Frida Kahlo

36.

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

37.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

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

Frost, Robert

43.

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.

44.

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

Johnny Carson

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

50.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham