Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

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

Matt Frewer

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Keats, John

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

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.

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

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Euripides

14.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

18.

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

19.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

20.

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

Bayly, Joseph

21.

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.

22.

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

Bible

23.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

27.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

28.

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

Marvell, Andrew

29.

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

30.

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

31.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

32.

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

Montgomery, James

33.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

36.

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

Stephanie Klein

37.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

38.

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

39.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

41.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

43.

'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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

47.

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

48.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

49.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

50.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John