Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Gide, Andre

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Bacon, Francis

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

10.

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

Diderot, Denis

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

14.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

19.

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

20.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

21.

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

Aaron McGruder

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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.

25.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

26.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

27.

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

Farber, Dave

28.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

29.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Carson, Johnny

31.

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

32.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

33.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

34.

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

36.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

37.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.