Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Publilius Syrus

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

13.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

14.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

15.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

16.

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

Carson, Johnny

17.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

18.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

20.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

21.

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

22.

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

Mitford, William

23.

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

24.

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

Young, Edward

25.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

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

Dryden, John

27.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

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

29.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

30.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

31.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

35.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

36.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Mann, Thomas

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

44.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

45.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

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

Allen, Woody

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