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

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bagnold, Enid

10.

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

11.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

15.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

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

Barker, Clive

20.

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

Milton, John

21.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

22.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

23.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

24.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

25.

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

Picabia, Francis

26.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Woody Allen

29.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

30.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

31.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Allen, Woody

39.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

40.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

41.

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.

42.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

43.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

45.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

46.

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

Auerbach, Red

47.

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

Bright, Grant M.

48.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

49.

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]