Motivational Quotes

Death

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Stephanie Klein

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

11.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

12.

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

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

15.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Marvell, Andrew

17.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

18.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

19.

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

20.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

23.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

24.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

31.

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

32.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

35.

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

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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.

37.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

38.

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

39.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

40.

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.

41.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

43.

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

44.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

48.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

49.

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.

50.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell