Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bhagavad Gita

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

10.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

12.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

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

Mitford, William

15.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

19.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

20.

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

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

22.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

23.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

24.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

25.

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

Woody Allen

26.

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

Bible

27.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

32.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

33.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Stephanie Klein

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Darrow, Clarence

39.

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.

40.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

41.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

42.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

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

Matt Frewer

45.

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

Bayly, Joseph

46.

'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

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

Fielding, Henry

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Epictetus

50.

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