Motivational Quotes

Death

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Gide, Andre

2.

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

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3.

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

Ken, Thomas

4.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

5.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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6.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

7.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

8.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

9.

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

Bright, Grant M.

10.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

11.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

13.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Bayly, Joseph

16.

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

17.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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?

Hallaj

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

22.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Palmerston, Lord

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

27.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

28.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

31.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

32.

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

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

35.

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

Johnny Carson

36.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

37.

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

38.

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

Aaron McGruder

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

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42.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

44.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.