Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

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.

10.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

14.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

15.

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

Craig Volk

16.

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

A. Sachs

17.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

18.

'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

19.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

Bright, Grant M.

21.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

23.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

24.

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

25.

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

Bhagavad Gita

26.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Bible

30.

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

Hermes, Georg

31.

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

George Burns

32.

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

Pamela Ribon

33.

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

34.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

36.

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.

37.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

38.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

42.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

43.

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

44.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

46.

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

47.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

48.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

49.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

50.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.