Motivational Quotes

Death

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bryant, William C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Aaron McGruder

15.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

16.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Manilius, Marcus

18.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

Gide, Andre

20.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

21.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

22.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

23.

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

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

25.

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

26.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

27.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

28.

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

Berra, Yogi

29.

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

Picabia, Francis

30.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

31.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

32.

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

Thrale, Hester i

33.

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

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

42.

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

43.

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