Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Death

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

11.

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

12.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

21.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

22.

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

Farber, Dave

23.

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

Becht, Ben

24.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Frida Kahlo

27.

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

Montgomery, James

28.

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

A. Sachs

29.

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

Donne, John

30.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

33.

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

34.

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

Manilius, Marcus

35.

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

George Burns

36.

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

Bright, Grant M.

37.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

41.

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

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

44.

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

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

46.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

47.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

50.

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