Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

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

Butler, Samuel

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Allen, Woody

10.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

11.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

12.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

15.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

17.

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

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

21.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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.

28.

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

Pamela Ribon

29.

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

30.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

31.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

32.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

33.

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

34.

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

Bagnold, Enid

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

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

Bright, Grant M.

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

39.

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

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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

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

43.

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

Lucan, F. L.

44.

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

Greene, Graham

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.