Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

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

Becht, Ben

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

Gide, Andre

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Diderot, Denis

10.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

11.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

14.

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

Johnny Carson

15.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

Bright, Grant M.

18.

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

19.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

22.

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

Gray, Thomas

23.

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

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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

25.

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

26.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

27.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

29.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

30.

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

Picabia, Francis

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

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

33.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

34.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

35.

'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

36.

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

Duffecy, James

37.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

39.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

40.

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

41.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

42.

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

Bagnold, Enid

43.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

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