Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

10.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

11.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

12.

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

Johnny Carson

13.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

24.

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

Epicurus

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

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

27.

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

David Assael

28.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

29.

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

30.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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.

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

39.

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

Carson, Johnny

40.

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

Berra, Yogi

41.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

43.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

44.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

45.

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

Duffecy, James

46.

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

Miller, Joaquin

47.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

48.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

49.

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

50.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada