Motivational Quotes

Death

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

George Burns

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

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

William Shakespeare

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

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

Young, Edward

11.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

12.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

13.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

Bryant, William C.

20.

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

21.

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

Heidegger, Martin

22.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

23.

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

24.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

28.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

29.

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

Marvell, Andrew

30.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

31.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

32.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

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

35.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

36.

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

Picabia, Francis

37.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

38.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

39.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

40.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

41.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

'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

43.

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

44.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

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

Bible

46.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

48.

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

49.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

50.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre