Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

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

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

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

12.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

13.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

15.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

16.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

17.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

18.

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

Keats, John

19.

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

Picabia, Francis

20.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

21.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

23.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

Gide, Andre

26.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

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

Addison, Joseph

29.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

30.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Palmerston, Lord

34.

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

Carson, Johnny

35.

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

36.

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

37.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

38.

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

39.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

43.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

44.

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

Stephanie Klein

45.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

46.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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.