Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

2.

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

John Scalzi

3.

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

Milton, John

4.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

5.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

6.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

Randy K. Milholland

8.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

9.

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

Bhagavad Gita

10.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

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

12.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

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

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

21.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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.

23.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

25.

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

Montgomery, James

26.

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

Johnny Carson

27.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

30.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

31.

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

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

Beaumont, Francis

35.

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

Bryant, William C.

36.

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

37.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

39.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

42.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

43.

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

Horace

44.

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

Auerbach, Red

45.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

46.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

47.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

48.

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

49.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

50.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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