Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Becht, Ben

Best Quotes about Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cocteau, Jean

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Dryden, John

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Heidegger, Martin

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

15.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

16.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

17.

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

18.

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

Mitford, William

19.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

20.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

21.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

22.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

23.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

25.

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

Foster, John W.

26.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

28.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

29.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

30.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

31.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

32.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

34.

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

35.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

Gide, Andre

37.

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

Camus, Albert

38.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

39.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

43.

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

Palmerston, Lord

44.

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

Marvell, Andrew

45.

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

Luther, Martin

46.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

47.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

49.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe