Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Diderot, Denis

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

10.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

11.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

12.

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

13.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

15.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

16.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

17.

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

Bible

18.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

23.

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

25.

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

26.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

29.

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

30.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

31.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

32.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

33.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

34.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

37.

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

38.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

45.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.