Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Death

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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]

Bible

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

Lucan, F. L.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Allen, Woody

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

13.

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

14.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

22.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

23.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

25.

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

Johnny Carson

26.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

28.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

29.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Epicurus

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

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

35.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

36.

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

Donne, John

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

44.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

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

Manilius, Marcus

48.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

49.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

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