Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Craig Volk

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

John Scalzi

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

10.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

11.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

13.

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

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

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

19.

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

Bayly, Joseph

20.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Greene, Graham

22.

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

23.

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

Plato

24.

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

25.

'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

26.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

28.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

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.

35.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

36.

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

Donne, John

37.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

38.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

40.

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

41.

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

Picabia, Francis

42.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

44.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

50.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.