Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Plato

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

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

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

21.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

23.

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

24.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

25.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

26.

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

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

29.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

31.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

34.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

35.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

36.

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

37.

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

Edith Sitwell

38.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

39.

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

Keats, John

40.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

41.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

42.

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

45.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

46.

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

Epicurus

47.

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

Dickinson, Emily

48.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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