Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Montgomery, James

2.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

3.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Frost, Robert

6.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

7.

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.

8.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

9.

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

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Bryant, William C.

12.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

19.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

21.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

22.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

23.

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

Woody Allen

24.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

29.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

30.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

31.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

32.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

33.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

37.

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

Gide, Andre

38.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

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

40.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

41.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

42.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

44.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

45.

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

46.

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

47.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

48.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

49.

'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

50.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace