Motivational Quotes

Death

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

Best Quotes about Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Butler, Samuel

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Woody Allen

10.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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.

13.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

14.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

16.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

21.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

22.

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

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

Becht, Ben

24.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

25.

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

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

30.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

32.

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

33.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

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

36.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

37.

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

George Burns

38.

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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

40.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

42.

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

Bright, Grant M.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

47.

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

Butler, Samuel

48.

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.

49.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

50.

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