Motivational Quotes

Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

- Healey, Thomas F.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Epicurus

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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.

10.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

12.

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

Heidegger, Martin

13.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

14.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

15.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

16.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

17.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

21.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

22.

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

23.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

24.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

26.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

Barker, Clive

30.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

32.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

34.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

35.

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

George Burns

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

39.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

40.

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

41.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

47.

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.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.