Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Bryant, William C.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Sophocles

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

Hermes, Georg

19.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

20.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Ken, Thomas

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

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

Craig Volk

24.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

25.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

26.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

Frida Kahlo

28.

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

Bhagavad Gita

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

32.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

34.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

35.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

36.

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

Charles II

37.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

40.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

41.

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

42.

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

Camus, Albert

43.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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.

47.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

48.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

49.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

50.

He would make a lovely corpse.