Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Death

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Barker, Clive

'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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

13.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

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

Bible

15.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

Randy K. Milholland

18.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

24.

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

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

27.

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

28.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

29.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

30.

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

Foster, John W.

31.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

32.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

35.

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

Addison, Joseph

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

39.

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

Miller, Joaquin

40.

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

Donne, John

41.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

42.

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

Plato

43.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Craig Volk

45.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

46.

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

47.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

48.

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

Berra, Yogi

49.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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