Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Luther, Martin

10.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

11.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

12.

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

Bible

13.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

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

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

20.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

21.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

22.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

23.

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

24.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

26.

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

27.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

32.

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

Epicurus

33.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

35.

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

Publilius Syrus

36.

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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

39.

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

Johnny Carson

40.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

44.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

45.

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

Stephanie Klein

46.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

47.

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

Randy K. Milholland

48.

'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

49.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

50.

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.