Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

10.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

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

Cocteau, Jean

13.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

14.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

15.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

17.

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

18.

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

19.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

20.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

22.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

23.

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

24.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

25.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

26.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

27.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

28.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

29.

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

David Assael

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

Johnny Carson

34.

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

35.

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

Ken, Thomas

36.

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

37.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

38.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

40.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

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

45.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

46.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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An evil life is a kind of death.