Motivational Quotes

Death

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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 look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnny Carson

10.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

14.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

19.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

20.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

21.

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

Epicurus

22.

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

23.

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

24.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

25.

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

Stephanie Klein

26.

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

Frida Kahlo

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Woody Allen

30.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Macdonald, George

33.

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

John Scalzi

34.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

35.

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

36.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

37.

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

38.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

41.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

Bayly, Joseph

44.

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

Mitford, William

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Auerbach, Red

49.

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

50.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth