Motivational Quotes

Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bright, Grant M.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Johnny Carson

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

Horace

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

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

Heidegger, Martin

11.

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

Aaron McGruder

12.

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

13.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

14.

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

A. Sachs

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

18.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

19.

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

20.

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

Bronte, Emily

21.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

22.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

23.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

24.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

25.

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

John Scalzi

26.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

27.

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

28.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

29.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

30.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

31.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

32.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

33.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

35.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

36.

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

Bayly, Joseph

37.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

38.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

41.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

42.

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

Edith Sitwell

43.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

46.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

47.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

Donne, John

49.

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

Horace

50.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De