Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bayly, Joseph

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Keats, John

10.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

11.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

13.

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

George Burns

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

18.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

21.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

22.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Bible

24.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Thrale, Hester i

26.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

27.

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

David Assael

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

31.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

32.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

34.

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.

35.

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

Becht, Ben

36.

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

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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

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

Hermes, Georg

39.

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

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

41.

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

Picabia, Francis

42.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

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

Bible

45.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

47.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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'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

49.

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

50.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert