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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Diderot, Denis

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

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

Greene, Graham

10.

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

Johnny Carson

11.

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

Bible

12.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

19.

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

20.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

21.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

22.

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

Macdonald, George

23.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

24.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

25.

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

26.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

27.

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

Berra, Yogi

28.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

29.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

30.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

34.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

36.

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

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

38.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

40.

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

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

43.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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'Tis after death that we measure men.