Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Nepos, Cornelius

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Montgomery, James

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

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

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

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Darrow, Clarence

16.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

19.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

20.

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

21.

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

22.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

Plato

24.

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

26.

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

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Edith Sitwell

29.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

30.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

32.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

33.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

34.

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

35.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

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.

37.

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

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

Allen, Woody

39.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

40.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

41.

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

Bright, Grant M.

42.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

43.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

44.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

45.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

48.

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

Keats, John

49.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

50.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward