Motivational Quotes

Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

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

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

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Becht, Ben

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

Young, Edward

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

11.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

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

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Ken, Thomas

23.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

24.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Charles II

26.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

27.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

28.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

Byron, Lord

31.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

36.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.