Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

11.

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

Dryden, John

12.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

13.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

14.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

16.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

17.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

22.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

29.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

32.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

33.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

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

Byron, Lord

36.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

37.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

40.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

43.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

44.

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

Matt Frewer

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

47.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

48.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

49.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

50.

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