Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

1.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

2.

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

Eliot, George

3.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

4.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

5.

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

6.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

7.

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

Montgomery, James

8.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

9.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

10.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

15.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

18.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

19.

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

David Assael

20.

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

21.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

22.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

23.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

24.

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

Dryden, John

25.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

26.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

27.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

29.

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

Ken, Thomas

30.

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

31.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

33.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

35.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

37.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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