Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

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

David Assael

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

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

Bible

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

12.

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

Milton, John

13.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

14.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

17.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

19.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

20.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

22.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Beaumont, Francis

28.

'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

29.

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

Donne, John

30.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Macdonald, George

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Miller, Joaquin

36.

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

37.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

38.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

39.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

43.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

47.

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

48.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

49.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

50.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.