Motivational Quotes

Death

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

- Aaron McGruder

Best Quotes about Death

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Heidegger, Martin

10.

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

Gray, Thomas

11.

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

12.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

13.

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

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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

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

19.

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

Havner, Vance

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

22.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

25.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

26.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

29.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

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

32.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

34.

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

Bayly, 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.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.