Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Macdonald, George

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Randy K. Milholland

13.

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

14.

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

Bhagavad Gita

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

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

17.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

Bronte, Emily

19.

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

20.

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

21.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

22.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

23.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

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

30.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

31.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

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

Picabia, Francis

34.

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

35.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

37.

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

Palmerston, Lord

38.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?