Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

2.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

3.

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

4.

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

Hazlitt, William

5.

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

Butler, Samuel

6.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

7.

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

8.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

9.

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

Palmerston, Lord

10.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

15.

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

Mitford, William

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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

20.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

21.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

26.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

Bagnold, Enid

28.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

29.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

30.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

32.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Bronte, Emily

34.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

35.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Horace

37.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

38.

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

Bible

39.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

42.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

44.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

45.

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

Edith Sitwell

46.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

47.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

48.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John