Motivational Quotes

Death

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Bible

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Frost, Robert

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

Craig Volk

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

10.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

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

Gray, Thomas

14.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

Bible

16.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

17.

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

18.

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

George Burns

19.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Camus, Albert

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.

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.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

24.

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

25.

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

Randy K. Milholland

26.

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

27.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Becht, Ben

29.

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

Epicurus

30.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

33.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

34.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

35.

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

Charles II

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Horace

38.

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

Epicurus

39.

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

40.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

41.

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

42.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

49.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.