Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Bible

'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

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

Miller, Joaquin

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

10.

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

Young, Edward

11.

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

Barker, Clive

12.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

13.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

15.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

16.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

17.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

18.

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

Gray, Thomas

19.

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.

20.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

21.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

22.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

24.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Duffecy, James

26.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Darrow, Clarence

34.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

35.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

36.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

37.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

39.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

40.

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

41.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

42.

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

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

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

46.

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

Addison, Joseph

47.

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

Euripides

48.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

49.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

50.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson