Motivational Quotes

Death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

- Mackay, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bacon, Francis

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

12.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

14.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

15.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

16.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

17.

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

Randy K. Milholland

18.

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

19.

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

Woody Allen

20.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

21.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

22.

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

23.

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

Miller, Joaquin

24.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

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

John Scalzi

34.

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

A. Sachs

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Horace

37.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

41.

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

Stephanie Klein

42.

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

43.

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

Berra, Yogi

44.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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