Motivational Quotes

Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

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

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

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

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

10.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

11.

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

David Assael

12.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

13.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Frida Kahlo

17.

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

Bayly, Joseph

18.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

22.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

23.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

24.

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

Frost, Robert

25.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

27.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

29.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

31.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

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

33.

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

34.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

37.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Charles II

40.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

41.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

42.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

43.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

44.

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

Ken, Thomas

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

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.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Johnny Carson

50.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord