Motivational Quotes

Death

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Death

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Bronte, Emily

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

John Scalzi

10.

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

11.

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

Plato

12.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

13.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

Craig Volk

15.

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.

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

Bible

18.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

19.

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.

20.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

23.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

24.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

25.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

27.

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

28.

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

Montgomery, James

29.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

31.

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

32.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

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

Charles II

34.

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

Foster, John W.

35.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

36.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

37.

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

Camus, Albert

38.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

39.

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

George Burns

40.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

41.

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

Lowell, James Russell

42.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

43.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

44.

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

Ken, Thomas

45.

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

Berra, Yogi

46.

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

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

49.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

50.

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

Allen, Woody