Motivational Quotes

Death

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

'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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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.

13.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

14.

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

Dryden, John

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

17.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

19.

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

20.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

21.

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

Horace

22.

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

23.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

24.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Manilius, Marcus

26.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

27.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

28.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

29.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

31.

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

Berra, Yogi

32.

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

Ken, Thomas

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

35.

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

Havner, Vance

36.

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

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

38.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

39.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

40.

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

Stephanie Klein

41.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

42.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

43.

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

44.

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

David Assael

45.

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

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46.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

48.

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

49.

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

Woody Allen

50.

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

Palmerston, Lord