Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

'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

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

David Assael

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

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

Greene, Graham

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Publilius Syrus

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

10.

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

Marvell, Andrew

11.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

12.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

13.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

19.

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

Horace

20.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

21.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

23.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

24.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

28.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

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

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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

32.

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

33.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

34.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

35.

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.

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

37.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Montgomery, James

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Craig Volk

43.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

44.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

45.

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

46.

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

Carson, Johnny

47.

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

48.

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

Camus, Albert

49.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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