Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

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

Craig Volk

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

12.

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.

13.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

27.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

29.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

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

31.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

34.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

35.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

Marvell, Andrew

37.

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

Gray, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Craig Volk

40.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

41.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

42.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

45.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

46.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

47.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

48.

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

Farber, Dave

49.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

50.

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