Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Johnny Carson

Best Quotes about Death

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

John Scalzi

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

10.

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

11.

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

Bronte, Emily

12.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Mann, Thomas

14.

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

Addison, Joseph

15.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

18.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

19.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

22.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

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

Randy K. Milholland

26.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

27.

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

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Bhagavad Gita

30.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

31.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Keats, John

35.

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

36.

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

Picabia, Francis

37.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

38.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

39.

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.

40.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

42.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

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

44.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Charles II

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.