Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Woody Allen

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

13.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

14.

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

Horace

15.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

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

Gray, Thomas

18.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

19.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

20.

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

21.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

24.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

25.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

26.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

27.

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

28.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

30.

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

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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

Picabia, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

36.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

37.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

38.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

39.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

40.

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

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Butler, Samuel

46.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

48.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

49.

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

Palmerston, Lord

50.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.