Motivational Quotes

Death

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dyer, Wayne

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Eliot, George

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Hamilton, Hugh

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epicurus

10.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

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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.

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

21.

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

22.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

23.

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

John Scalzi

24.

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

25.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

26.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

27.

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

Miller, Joaquin

28.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

29.

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

Edith Sitwell

30.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

31.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

32.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Foster, John W.

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

37.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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