Motivational Quotes

Death

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

10.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

11.

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

12.

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

Charles II

13.

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

14.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

17.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

18.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

20.

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

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

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

23.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

26.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

27.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

28.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

30.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

31.

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.

Beckett, Samuel

32.

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

33.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

34.

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

35.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

36.

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

37.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

38.

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

Montgomery, James

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Palmerston, Lord

42.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

43.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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