Motivational Quotes

Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Donne, John

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Frida Kahlo

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

10.

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

Craig Volk

11.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

12.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

13.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

14.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

17.

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

John Scalzi

18.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

19.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

20.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

21.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

22.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

23.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

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

Foster, John W.

26.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

27.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

30.

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

Young, Edward

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Craig Volk

36.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

45.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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An evil life is a kind of death.