Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

13.

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

Plato

14.

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.

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

16.

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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

18.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

19.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

21.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

23.

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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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

25.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

26.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

27.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

29.

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

David Assael

30.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

33.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

37.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

38.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

39.

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

Auden, W. H.

40.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

41.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

42.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

43.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

44.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

48.

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

Mann, Thomas

49.

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

50.

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