Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

13.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

14.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

15.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

16.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Thrale, Hester i

21.

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

22.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

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

26.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

27.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

28.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

29.

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

30.

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

Manilius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

34.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

37.

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

Frost, Robert

38.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

40.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

42.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

45.

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

Bagnold, Enid

46.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

47.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

48.

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

Stephanie Klein

49.

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

50.

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