Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Publilius Syrus

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Byron, Lord

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

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sophocles

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

12.

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

Ken, Thomas

13.

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

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14.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

15.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

16.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

20.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

21.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

22.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

23.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

24.

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.

25.

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

Edith Sitwell

26.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

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31.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

36.

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

37.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

40.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

41.

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

Chandler, Raymond

42.

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

Horace

43.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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44.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

48.

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

Eliot, George

49.

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

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward