Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Thrale, Hester i

Best Quotes about Death

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

10.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

11.

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

Stephanie Klein

12.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

13.

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

14.

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

Beaumont, Francis

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

27.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

28.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

Charles II

32.

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

Thrale, Hester i

33.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

35.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Cocteau, Jean

40.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

41.

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

Keats, John

42.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

44.

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

Mitford, William

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

48.

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.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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