Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

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

10.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

12.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

13.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

14.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

20.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

22.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

23.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

24.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

25.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

26.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

29.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

32.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

33.

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

34.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

36.

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

Keats, John

37.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

38.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

39.

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

Macdonald, George

40.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

42.

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

Publilius Syrus

43.

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

Milton, John

44.

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

45.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

47.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

48.

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

49.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

50.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert