Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

10.

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

11.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

17.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

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

Epicurus

19.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Donne, John

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

28.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

31.

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

George Burns

32.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Marvell, Andrew

34.

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

35.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

36.

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

Eliot, George

37.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Ken, Thomas

40.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

42.

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

43.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

44.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

46.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

47.

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

Bryant, William C.

48.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

49.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

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.