Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Woody Allen

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

10.

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

Bible

11.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

12.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

13.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

14.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

17.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Epicurus

20.

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

Aaron McGruder

21.

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

22.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

23.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Matt Frewer

26.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

27.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

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

32.

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

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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

Stephanie Klein

34.

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

Young, Edward

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

40.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

49.

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

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