Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Bhagavad Gita

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sophocles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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 am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

13.

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

14.

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

Chandler, Raymond

15.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

16.

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

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

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

Pamela Ribon

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

22.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

23.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

24.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

26.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

27.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

28.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

29.

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

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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

31.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

32.

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

David Assael

33.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Ken, Thomas

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

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

37.

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

Foster, John W.

38.

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

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Beaumont, Francis

42.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

43.

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

44.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

45.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

46.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

49.

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

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.