Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Jefferson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Havner, Vance

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Bible

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

10.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

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

Craig Volk

12.

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

Berra, Yogi

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

16.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

David Assael

19.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

20.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

21.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

Greene, Graham

27.

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

28.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

29.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

30.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

37.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

39.

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

Picabia, Francis

40.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

42.

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

43.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

44.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

45.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

46.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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