Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Milton, John

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Butler, Samuel

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

10.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

13.

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

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.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

17.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

25.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

29.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

30.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

Craig Volk

33.

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

Epicurus

34.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

35.

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

Matt Frewer

36.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

37.

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

Manilius, Marcus

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

Camus, Albert

41.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

42.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

43.

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

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

47.

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

48.

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

Woody Allen

49.

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

50.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus