Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Hermes, Georg

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

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

12.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

13.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

15.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

18.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

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

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Plato

24.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Darrow, Clarence

26.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

27.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

30.

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

Manilius, Marcus

31.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

32.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

33.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

34.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

35.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

'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

39.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

41.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

43.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

44.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

45.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

46.

'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

47.

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

Matt Frewer

48.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

49.

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

Barker, Clive

50.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.