Motivational Quotes

Death

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Johnny Carson

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

10.

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

Bhagavad Gita

11.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

15.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

16.

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

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

19.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

20.

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

Gide, Andre

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

22.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

23.

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

Dryden, John

24.

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

25.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

27.

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.

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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

29.

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

Woody Allen

30.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

35.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

36.

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

37.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

38.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

39.

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.

40.

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

Donne, John

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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