Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

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

Hermes, Georg

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

10.

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

11.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

16.

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

Chandler, Raymond

17.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

18.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

19.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

22.

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.

23.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

27.

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

Randy K. Milholland

28.

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

29.

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

Epicurus

30.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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.

32.

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

Frida Kahlo

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

35.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

36.

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

37.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

38.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

39.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

40.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

Marvell, Andrew

42.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

43.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

46.

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

47.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

48.

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

Frost, Robert

49.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

50.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug