Motivational Quotes

Death

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

- Rodney Yee

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auden, W. H.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Plato

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Allen, Woody

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

11.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

12.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

13.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

14.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Macdonald, George

18.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

19.

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.

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

21.

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

22.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Mann, Thomas

24.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

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

Stephanie Klein

26.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

31.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

32.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

33.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

34.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

35.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

40.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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

43.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

44.

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

45.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

46.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

47.

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

48.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene