Motivational Quotes

Death

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

- Book Of Common Prayer

Best Quotes about Death

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Hazlitt, William

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epictetus

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Macdonald, George

11.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

12.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

13.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

15.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

18.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

19.

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

Marvell, Andrew

20.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

Craig Volk

22.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

23.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Dryden, John

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

Bhagavad Gita

29.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

30.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

31.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

32.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

36.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

37.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

38.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

40.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

41.

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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

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

44.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

45.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

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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.