Motivational Quotes

Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Woody Allen

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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.

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

10.

'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

11.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

12.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

15.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Thrale, Hester i

19.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

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

21.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

22.

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

Marvell, Andrew

23.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

25.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

26.

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.

27.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

28.

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

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

30.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

33.

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

Berra, Yogi

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

36.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

39.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

Johnny Carson

42.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

43.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

44.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

45.

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

46.

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

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