Motivational Quotes

Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

- Healey, Thomas F.

Best Quotes about Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Bright, Grant M.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

John Scalzi

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

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.

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

Palmerston, Lord

13.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

14.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

16.

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

Donne, John

17.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

18.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

19.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

20.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

21.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

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

Beaumont, Francis

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

27.

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

28.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

29.

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

George Burns

30.

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

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

Horace

33.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

34.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

35.

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

Bright, Grant M.

36.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

37.

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

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

Frida Kahlo

40.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

45.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

46.

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

47.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

49.

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

Duffecy, James

50.

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

Buffett, Jimmy