Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Death

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Montgomery, James

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

Bronte, Emily

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Donne, John

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

Hamilton, Hugh

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

Keats, John

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

John Scalzi

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

19.

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

20.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

21.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

22.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

23.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

24.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

25.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

30.

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

31.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

32.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

33.

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

34.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

37.

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

38.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

40.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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

43.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

45.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

46.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

47.

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

Carson, Johnny

48.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

49.

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

Barker, Clive

50.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De