Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Craig Volk

Best Quotes about Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Bible

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

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

10.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Craig Volk

12.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

13.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

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]

Bible

19.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

Keats, John

22.

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

Marvell, Andrew

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

30.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

31.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

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

33.

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

Craig Volk

34.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

35.

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

36.

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

Farber, Dave

37.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

39.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

40.

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

Bible

41.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

42.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

43.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

44.

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

45.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

46.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

47.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

49.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

50.

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