Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Lucan, F. L.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Plato

10.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Young, Edward

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Beaumont, Francis

16.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

17.

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

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Charles II

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

Gide, Andre

23.

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

Craig Volk

24.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

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

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

28.

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

29.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

31.

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

Farber, Dave

32.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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.

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

Craig Volk

36.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

37.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

38.

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

Woody Allen

39.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

40.

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

41.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

42.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

44.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

49.

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