Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Woody Allen

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lucan, F. L.

10.

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]

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11.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

14.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

17.

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

Becht, Ben

18.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

19.

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

Montgomery, James

20.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

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

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24.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

25.

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

Auerbach, Red

26.

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

27.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

28.

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

29.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

32.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

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

34.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

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

Palmerston, Lord

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

39.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

40.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

41.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

42.

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

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

45.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

46.

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

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47.

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

48.

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

Charles II

49.

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

50.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous