Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Hook, Sydney

'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

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

10.

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

Becht, Ben

11.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

13.

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

14.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

15.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

16.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

17.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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.

19.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

20.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

24.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

27.

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

28.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

30.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

31.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

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

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

35.

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

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.

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

Palmerston, Lord

38.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

40.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

41.

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

Auerbach, Red

42.

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

Sophocles

43.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

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

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

Eliot, George

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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

47.

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

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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.