Motivational Quotes

Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

11.

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

12.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

13.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

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

15.

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

Johnny Carson

16.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

Euripides

18.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

19.

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

20.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

21.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

22.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

28.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

29.

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

Bertolt Brecht

30.

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

31.

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

Farber, Dave

32.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

Epicurus

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

35.

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

36.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

37.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

44.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

45.

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

Frost, Robert

46.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

47.

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

48.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

49.

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

Young, Edward

50.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas