Motivational Quotes

Death

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

10.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

11.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

12.

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

13.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

14.

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

Dryden, John

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

17.

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

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

21.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

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

24.

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

Ann Radcliffe

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

Chandler, Raymond

28.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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

30.

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

Berra, Yogi

31.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

32.

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

Johnny Carson

33.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Randy K. Milholland

36.

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

37.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

46.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

47.

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

Marvell, Andrew

48.

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

Bayly, Joseph

49.

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

50.

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

Aurelius, Marcus