Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

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

10.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

13.

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

14.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

15.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Ken, Thomas

17.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

18.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

20.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

21.

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

Berra, Yogi

22.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

23.

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

24.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

28.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

29.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

30.

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

31.

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

Duffecy, James

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Epicurus

34.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

35.

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

36.

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

38.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

39.

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.

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.

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