Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Bible

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

11.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

14.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

17.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Frida Kahlo

19.

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

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

23.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

24.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

25.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

26.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

28.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

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

30.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

44.

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

Fielding, Henry

45.

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

Heidegger, Martin

46.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

47.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

48.

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

49.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

50.

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