Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woody Allen

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

11.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Heidegger, Martin

14.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

15.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

16.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

17.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

18.

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

19.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Craig Volk

23.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

25.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

26.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

27.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

28.

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

Aaron McGruder

29.

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

30.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

31.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

32.

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

33.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

34.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

36.

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

37.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

38.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Young, Edward

41.

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

Publilius Syrus

42.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

43.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

44.

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

45.

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

46.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

47.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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.

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

50.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.