Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

10.

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

11.

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

Becht, Ben

12.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

14.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Epicurus

17.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

19.

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

Ken, Thomas

20.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

21.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

24.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

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

Palmerston, Lord

29.

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

30.

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

31.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

32.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

33.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

35.

Lewis, C. S.

36.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

39.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

41.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

44.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

45.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

46.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

47.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

48.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul 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.

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