Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Montgomery, James

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Picabia, Francis

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

Hermes, Georg

15.

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

16.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

21.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

22.

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

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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

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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

25.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Donne, John

29.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

30.

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

31.

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

32.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

33.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

35.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

40.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

41.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

43.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

45.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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The fear of death is worse than death.