Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Montgomery, James

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

Hamilton, Hugh

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

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

11.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

15.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

19.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

20.

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

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

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

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

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

25.

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

Ken, Thomas

26.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

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

Bright, Grant M.

29.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

30.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

31.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

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

33.

'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

34.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

35.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

39.

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

40.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

41.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

42.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

43.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

44.

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

Greene, Graham

45.

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

Forster, Edward M.

46.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

47.

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

Hook, Sydney

48.

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

49.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth