Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

3.

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

Pamela Ribon

4.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

5.

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

Randy K. Milholland

6.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

7.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

8.

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

Bright, Grant M.

9.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

10.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

11.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

12.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

13.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Bronte, Emily

15.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

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

Hook, Sydney

18.

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

Milton, John

19.

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

Greene, Graham

20.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Macdonald, George

22.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

23.

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

A. Sachs

24.

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

Charles II

25.

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

Bright, Grant M.

26.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

30.

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

Bagnold, Enid

31.

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

32.

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

Craig Volk

33.

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

David Assael

34.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

37.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

38.

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

39.

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

Aaron McGruder

40.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

42.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

43.

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

44.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

45.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

46.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.