Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Charles II

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

24.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

25.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

28.

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

Craig Volk

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

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

34.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

37.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

Craig Volk

39.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

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

Becht, Ben

46.

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

Foster, John W.

47.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

John Scalzi