Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

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

Farber, Dave

3.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

4.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

5.

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

Luther, Martin

6.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

7.

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

8.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

12.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

13.

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

Johnny Carson

14.

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

Lucan, F. L.

15.

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

16.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

17.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

20.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

23.

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

Hermes, Georg

24.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

Keats, John

27.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

28.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

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

Euripides

34.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

35.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

36.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

37.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Fromm, Erich

39.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

41.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

44.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Gide, Andre

46.

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

47.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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

Butler, Samuel

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