Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

10.

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

11.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

David Assael

14.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

17.

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

Foster, John W.

18.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

John Scalzi

20.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

21.

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

Bagnold, Enid

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

24.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

25.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

26.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

32.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

34.

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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

36.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

37.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

39.

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

Gide, Andre

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

42.

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

43.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

45.

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

Fielding, Henry

46.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

47.

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]

Bible

48.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

49.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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