Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Berra, Yogi

2.

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

3.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

4.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

5.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

6.

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

7.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

8.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

9.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

10.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

11.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

12.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Plato

14.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

Canetti, Elias

17.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

19.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

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

22.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

24.

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

Charles II

25.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

26.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

27.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

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

Gray, Thomas

30.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Chandler, Raymond

32.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Bronte, Emily

34.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

39.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

42.

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

43.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

44.

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

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

Diderot, Denis

47.

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

48.

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