Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

2.

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

Epicurus

3.

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

Beaumont, Francis

4.

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

Chandler, Raymond

5.

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.

6.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

7.

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

John Scalzi

8.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

9.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

11.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

12.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

13.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

19.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Barker, Clive

21.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

25.

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

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

32.

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

George Burns

33.

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

Gide, Andre

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

36.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

David Assael

39.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

40.

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

41.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

43.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

50.

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