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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Charles II

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

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

Donne, John

12.

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

Stephanie Klein

13.

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

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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

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

17.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

20.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

21.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

23.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

25.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

26.

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

Frost, Robert

27.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

28.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

30.

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

31.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Johnny Carson

36.

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

37.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

40.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

41.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

42.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

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

49.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

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

Palmerston, Lord