Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Manilius, Marcus

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Charles II

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

11.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

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

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

16.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

17.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Palmerston, Lord

25.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

28.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

Bayly, Joseph

31.

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

Bible

32.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

35.

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

Bright, Grant M.

36.

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]

Bible

37.

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.

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

40.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

41.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

42.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

43.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

44.

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

Mitford, William

45.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

46.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

Gide, Andre

48.

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

Pamela Ribon

49.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

50.

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

Berra, Yogi

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