Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

10.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

14.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

15.

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

Stephanie Klein

16.

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

Frost, Robert

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

19.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

David Assael

21.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

27.

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

Woody Allen

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

Randy K. Milholland

30.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

31.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

32.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

33.

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

Euripides

34.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

35.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

36.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

37.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

'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

43.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

44.

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.

45.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

46.

These have not the hope to die.