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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

Lewis, C. S.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

10.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

Canetti, Elias

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

15.

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

16.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

18.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

19.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

George Burns

26.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

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

28.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Hook, Sydney

31.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

32.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

33.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

34.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

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

39.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

43.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

44.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

45.

'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

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

49.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

50.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann