Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Bible

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

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Berra, Yogi

13.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

14.

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

Stephanie Klein

15.

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

Bright, Grant M.

16.

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.

17.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

18.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

19.

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

20.

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

George Burns

21.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

22.

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

Foster, John W.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Plato

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

36.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

37.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

38.

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

39.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

43.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

Mann, Thomas

45.

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

46.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.