Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Young, Edward

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

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

Bible

11.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

14.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

15.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

16.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

17.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

19.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

21.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.

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

23.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

25.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

26.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

27.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

28.

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

29.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Palmerston, Lord

36.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

37.

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

38.

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

39.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.