Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Darrow, Clarence

13.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

14.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

15.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

17.

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

18.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

19.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Montgomery, James

21.

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

David Assael

22.

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

23.

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

Diderot, Denis

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

Bagnold, Enid

26.

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

Beaumont, Francis

27.

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

Duffecy, James

28.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

29.

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

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

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

34.

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

35.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

36.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

37.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

38.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

39.

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

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

43.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

44.

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

Forster, Edward M.

45.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

46.

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