Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

10.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

13.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Johnny Carson

21.

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

22.

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

Foster, John W.

23.

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

24.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Mann, Thomas

26.

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

27.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

34.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

36.

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

37.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

39.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

40.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

41.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

42.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

43.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

44.

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

Fielding, Henry

45.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

46.

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

47.

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

48.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

49.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

50.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.