Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

10.

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

11.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

12.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

13.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

14.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

15.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

16.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

17.

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

Gray, Thomas

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.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

22.

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

Matt Frewer

23.

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

24.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

29.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

30.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Diderot, Denis

34.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

35.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

36.

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

A. Sachs

37.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Dryden, John

39.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

40.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

41.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

43.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

44.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

45.

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

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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.

48.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

49.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De