Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Duffecy, James

11.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

17.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Lowell, James Russell

23.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

26.

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

27.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

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

31.

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

32.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

33.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Palmerston, Lord

36.

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

37.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

38.

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

39.

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

Bryant, William C.

40.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

41.

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

42.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

43.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

44.

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

45.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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

Berra, Yogi