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

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Epicurus

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

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.

12.

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

Picabia, Francis

13.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

14.

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

Auden, W. H.

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Young, Edward

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

19.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

21.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

23.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

25.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

26.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

27.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

29.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

30.

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

Craig Volk

31.

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

Bible

32.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

37.

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

Hermes, Georg

38.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

Craig Volk

40.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

41.

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

42.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

43.

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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Woody Allen

46.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

47.

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

48.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

49.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

50.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert