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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Stephanie Klein

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

Plato

12.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

15.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

16.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

17.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

18.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Frida Kahlo

20.

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

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

23.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

24.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

25.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

26.

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

27.

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

Bronte, Emily

28.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

29.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Addison, Joseph

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

38.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

39.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

42.

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

43.

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

Berra, Yogi

44.

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

Bright, Grant M.

45.

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

David Assael

46.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

47.

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

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Dryden, John

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider