Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montgomery, James

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

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

11.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

12.

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

Barker, Clive

13.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

15.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Dryden, John

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

22.

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

Bryant, William C.

23.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

24.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

25.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

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

Ken, Thomas

27.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Woody Allen

35.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

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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

38.

'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

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

40.

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

41.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

42.

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

43.

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

44.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

45.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.