Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Cocteau, Jean

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Woody Allen

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

12.

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

Marvell, Andrew

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

15.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

16.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

17.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

18.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

'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

20.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

21.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

22.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

25.

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

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Keats, John

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

36.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

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

Thrale, Hester i

41.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

43.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

44.

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

45.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

Keats, John

48.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.