Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

2.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

3.

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

Publilius Syrus

4.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

5.

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

Bright, Grant M.

6.

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

Butler, Samuel

7.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

8.

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

John Scalzi

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Johnny Carson

12.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

13.

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

Bayly, Joseph

14.

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

15.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

19.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

21.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

22.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

23.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

Lucan, F. L.

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

29.

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

Horace

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bronte, Emily

34.

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

Stephanie Klein

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

37.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

38.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

39.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

42.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

43.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

44.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

45.

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

Carson, Johnny

46.

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

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

48.

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

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus