Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Picabia, Francis

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Aurelius, Marcus

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Randy K. Milholland

18.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

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

Chandler, Raymond

20.

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.

21.

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

Charles II

22.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

23.

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

24.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

25.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

26.

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

27.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

28.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

32.

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

Bagnold, Enid

33.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

40.

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.

41.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

42.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

43.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

44.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

45.

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

Foster, John W.

46.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

47.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

48.

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

Matt Frewer

49.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

50.

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