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

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bright, Grant M.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Donne, John

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

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

George Burns

11.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

12.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

13.

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

Euripides

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.

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

16.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Bright, Grant M.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

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

25.

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

Matt Frewer

26.

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

27.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

28.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

32.

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

Bertolt Brecht

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

37.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Addison, Joseph

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

42.

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

Mitford, William

43.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

44.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

45.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

46.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

47.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

48.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.