Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Bible

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Bright, Grant M.

14.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

19.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Bertolt Brecht

21.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

22.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

29.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

30.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

34.

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

Gray, Thomas

35.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

36.

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

Hook, Sydney

37.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

40.

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

Horace

41.

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

Dryden, John

42.

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

43.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

44.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

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

Cocteau, Jean

47.

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

48.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

49.

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

50.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth