Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Butler, Samuel

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Havner, Vance

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

Carson, Johnny

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Addison, Joseph

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

11.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

Bryant, William C.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bhagavad Gita

16.

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

Woody Allen

17.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

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

20.

'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

21.

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.

22.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

23.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

26.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

27.

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

28.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

29.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

Bayly, Joseph

32.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

33.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

39.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

41.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.