Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Nepos, Cornelius

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

George Burns

12.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

15.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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]

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20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

22.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

27.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

Bertolt Brecht

30.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

31.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

34.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

35.

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

36.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

39.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

41.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

42.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

43.

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

Allen, Woody

44.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

48.

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]

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49.

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

50.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi