Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Keats, John

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Darrow, Clarence

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Johnny Carson

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

11.

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

12.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

13.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

14.

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

15.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

16.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

18.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

20.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

21.

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

Farber, Dave

22.

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

23.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

24.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

25.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

27.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

28.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

32.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

33.

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

34.

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

Edith Sitwell

35.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

36.

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

Bright, Grant M.

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

39.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

41.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

42.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

43.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

44.

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

45.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

46.

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

Keats, John

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham