Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

4.

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

Donne, John

5.

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

6.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

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

Gide, Andre

8.

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

Bryant, William C.

9.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Greene, Graham

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

18.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

28.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

29.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

34.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

35.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

36.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

37.

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

Dryden, John

38.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

39.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

43.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Frida Kahlo

50.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean