Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frost, Robert

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Macdonald, George

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

12.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Epicurus

14.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

15.

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

16.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Becht, Ben

19.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

20.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

21.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

22.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

23.

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

25.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

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

27.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

28.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

29.

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

Keats, John

30.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

31.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

32.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

33.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

34.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

36.

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

37.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

38.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

39.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Byron, Lord

43.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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

45.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

46.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

47.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

48.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

49.

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.

50.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert