Motivational Quotes

Death

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

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

Montgomery, James

18.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

19.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

20.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Bright, Grant M.

24.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

25.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

26.

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

27.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

30.

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

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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.

33.

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

Johnny Carson

34.

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.

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

37.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

40.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

41.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

42.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

44.

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

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Epicurus

48.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

49.

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

Beaumont, Francis

50.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James