Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Randy K. Milholland

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

10.

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

11.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

12.

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

Marvell, Andrew

13.

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

Bible

14.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

15.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

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

Woody Allen

20.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

24.

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

25.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

28.

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

Hook, Sydney

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Hermes, Georg

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

33.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

34.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

36.

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

Bryant, William C.

37.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

38.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

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

Frida Kahlo

41.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

44.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

45.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

46.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

47.

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

Eliot, George

48.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

49.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

50.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon