Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Einstein, Albert

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Eliot, George

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

10.

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

Young, Edward

11.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

12.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

13.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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

15.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

16.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

18.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

'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

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

24.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

25.

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

Epicurus

26.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Forster, Edward M.

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Donne, John

34.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

35.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

Marvell, Andrew

37.

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

38.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

40.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

41.

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.