Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

'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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Woody Allen

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

11.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Manilius, Marcus

13.

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

14.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

15.

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.

16.

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

Dryden, John

17.

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

18.

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

19.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

20.

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

Epicurus

21.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

22.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

Euripides

25.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

26.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

27.

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.

Alsop, Steward

28.

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

29.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

31.

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

32.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

34.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

35.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

36.

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

Horace

37.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

38.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

40.

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

Palmerston, Lord

41.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

42.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

44.

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

Stephanie Klein

45.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

George Burns

47.

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

Byron, Lord

48.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

49.

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

50.

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