Motivational Quotes

Death

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bayly, Joseph

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Gide, Andre

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

Milton, John

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

Pamela Ribon

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

12.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

13.

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

14.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

16.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

17.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

18.

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

19.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

20.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

21.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

23.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

24.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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

Macdonald, George

29.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

30.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

31.

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

32.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

37.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

38.

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

Bagnold, Enid

39.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Bible

41.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

42.

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

Bryant, William C.

43.

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

Picabia, Francis

44.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

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

46.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Craig Volk

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De