Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Camus, Albert

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

12.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

13.

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

Bright, Grant M.

14.

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

Dryden, John

15.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Milton, John

19.

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

Pamela Ribon

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

25.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

26.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

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

Dryden, John

30.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

31.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

32.

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

33.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

34.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

35.

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

36.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.

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

Chandler, Raymond

38.

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

39.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

40.

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

41.

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

Diderot, Denis

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

44.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

45.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

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

47.

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

Carson, Johnny

48.

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

Woody Allen

49.

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

Dyer, Wayne

50.

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