Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

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

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Camus, Albert

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

18.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

19.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

25.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

26.

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

27.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

28.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

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

Palmerston, Lord

32.

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

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

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

Epicurus

35.

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

Plato

36.

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

37.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

38.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

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

40.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

41.

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

Donne, John

42.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

45.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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

47.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

49.

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

50.

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