Motivational Quotes

Death

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

- Mccreery, John Luckey

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

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

Luther, Martin

10.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

Donne, John

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

14.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Palmerston, Lord

16.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

17.

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.

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

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

Duffecy, James

21.

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

22.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

23.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

24.

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

A. Sachs

25.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

26.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

30.

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

31.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

32.

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

33.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

34.

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.

35.

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

Woody Allen

36.

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

Barker, Clive

37.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

38.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

39.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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.

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.

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

45.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

46.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

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

Manilius, Marcus

48.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

49.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

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.