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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Craig Volk

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

Epicurus

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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

14.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

15.

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

16.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

23.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

Hermes, Georg

25.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

26.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

31.

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

Becht, Ben

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Bronte, Emily

38.

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

Woody Allen

39.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

40.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

46.

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

Luther, Martin

47.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

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

Marvell, Andrew

49.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De