Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

11.

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

12.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

13.

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

Diderot, Denis

14.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

17.

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

Picabia, Francis

18.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

22.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

24.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

25.

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

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

32.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

34.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

David Assael

36.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Duffecy, James

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

41.

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

42.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

43.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

46.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

48.

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

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49.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Bryant, William C.