Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Matt Frewer

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

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Foster, John W.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

10.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

16.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Edith Sitwell

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

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

Bronte, Emily

23.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

24.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

25.

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.

26.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

27.

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

Gide, Andre

28.

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

Becht, Ben

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Berra, Yogi

31.

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

32.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

33.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

34.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

35.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

38.

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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

40.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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