Motivational Quotes

Death

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

- Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Best Quotes about Death

1.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

2.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

3.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

4.

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

Bright, Grant M.

5.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

6.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

7.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

8.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

9.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

'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

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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15.

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

Auerbach, Red

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

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]

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18.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

19.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Becht, Ben

23.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

24.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

25.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

30.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

31.

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

Montgomery, James

32.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

33.

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

34.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

35.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

36.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

39.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

40.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

41.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

42.

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

Gide, Andre

43.

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

Craig Volk

44.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

45.

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

Forster, Edward M.

46.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

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

Craig Volk

48.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

49.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

50.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous