Motivational Quotes

Death

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

- Thrale, Hester i

Best Quotes about Death

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Publilius Syrus

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

16.

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

Berra, Yogi

17.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

18.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

19.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

20.

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

21.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Stephanie Klein

23.

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

Plato

24.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

27.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

28.

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

Becht, Ben

29.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

30.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

32.

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

Pamela Ribon

33.

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

Dryden, John

34.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

36.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

John Scalzi

39.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

40.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

41.

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

Horace

42.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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.

46.

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

Miller, Joaquin

47.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

48.

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

49.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

50.

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