Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Eliot, George

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

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

Becht, Ben

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.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

12.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

13.

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

14.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

16.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

17.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

18.

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

19.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

20.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Frida Kahlo

24.

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

Heidegger, Martin

25.

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

Horace

26.

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.

27.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

28.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

29.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

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

Matt Frewer

31.

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

32.

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

Ken, Thomas

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

35.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

36.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

37.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

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.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

45.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

46.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

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

48.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

Hook, Sydney

50.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence