Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Death

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

Diderot, Denis

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Hook, Sydney

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

John Scalzi

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

10.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

11.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

12.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

13.

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

Becht, Ben

14.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

17.

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

Woody Allen

18.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

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

20.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

25.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

28.

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

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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.

31.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

32.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

33.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

34.

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

35.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

36.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

37.

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

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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

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

40.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

41.

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

Stephanie Klein

42.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

46.

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

Publilius Syrus

47.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

48.

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