Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Randy K. Milholland

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Palmerston, Lord

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Leonardo da Vinci

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

10.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

13.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

14.

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

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

Stephanie Klein

17.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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.

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

Bible

24.

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

28.

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

32.

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

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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

34.

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

36.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Randy K. Milholland

38.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

Manilius, Marcus

41.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

44.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

45.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

46.

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

Frost, Robert

47.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

49.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.