Motivational Quotes

Death

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Death

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Keats, John

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

Young, Edward

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

Lucan, F. L.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

12.

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

Cocteau, Jean

13.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

14.

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

15.

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

16.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

17.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

19.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

20.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

24.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

25.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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.

27.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

28.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

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

31.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

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

33.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

35.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

39.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

40.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

41.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Duffecy, James

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

48.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

49.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.