Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Barker, Clive

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

12.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

14.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

15.

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

16.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

17.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

22.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

23.

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

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

26.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

27.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

28.

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

29.

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

Beaumont, Francis

30.

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

31.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

34.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Bronte, Emily

37.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

38.

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

Hook, Sydney

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

41.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

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

45.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.