Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Fromm, Erich

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Dryden, John

10.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

11.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

12.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

George Burns

15.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

17.

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

18.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

22.

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

23.

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

Gray, Thomas

24.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

25.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

26.

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

Canetti, Elias

27.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

28.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

33.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

34.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

37.

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

Epicurus

38.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

39.

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

Ken, Thomas

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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

Foster, John W.

42.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

43.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

44.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

45.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

46.

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.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

48.

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

49.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel