Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Frida Kahlo

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

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

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

13.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

15.

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

Aaron McGruder

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

Johnny Carson

19.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

20.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

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

22.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

23.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

25.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

26.

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

27.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

29.

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

Bible

30.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

33.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

34.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

35.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

36.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

37.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

A. Sachs

40.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

41.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

42.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

43.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

44.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

45.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

48.

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