Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fromm, Erich

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

David Assael

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Mann, Thomas

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

17.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

18.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Frost, Robert

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

24.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

25.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

Horace

27.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

29.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

30.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

32.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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.

34.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

40.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

41.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

42.

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

Bible

43.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

44.

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

Donne, John

45.

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

46.

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

Keats, John

47.

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

48.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

49.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.