Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

- Gilmore, Gary Mark

Best Quotes about Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Charles II

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bright, Grant M.

10.

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

11.

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

Duffecy, James

12.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

15.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

16.

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

Diderot, Denis

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

19.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

20.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

22.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

24.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

25.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

26.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

29.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

30.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

31.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

32.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

33.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

34.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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.

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

38.

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

39.

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

Hook, Sydney

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

42.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

43.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Bright, Grant M.

45.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

46.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry