Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Manilius, Marcus

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

11.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

12.

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

Bryant, William C.

13.

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

Epicurus

14.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

15.

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

16.

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

Auerbach, Red

17.

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

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

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

20.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

22.

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

Woody Allen

23.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

24.

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

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

27.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

Johnny Carson

29.

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

Woody Allen

30.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

36.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

37.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

38.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

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

41.

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

42.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

44.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Camus, Albert

48.

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

Young, Edward

49.

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

50.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye