Motivational Quotes

Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

10.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

Jarman, Derek

14.

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

Ken, Thomas

15.

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

Diderot, Denis

16.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

17.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

19.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

20.

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

21.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

23.

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

24.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

25.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

26.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

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

29.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

30.

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

Bayly, Joseph

31.

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

32.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

33.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

34.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

36.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

38.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

40.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

44.

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

45.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

46.

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

Berra, Yogi

47.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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

Beaumont, Francis

49.

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

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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