Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Keats, John

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

10.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

11.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

14.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

15.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

16.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

17.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

18.

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

Diderot, Denis

19.

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.

20.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

21.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

22.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

23.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

24.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

25.

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

26.

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

Canetti, Elias

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

John Scalzi

29.

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

Epicurus

30.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

31.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

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

34.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

35.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

36.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Carson, Johnny

38.

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

39.

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

Johnny Carson

40.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

41.

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

George Burns

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.