Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bhagavad Gita

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

10.

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

11.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

12.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

15.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

16.

'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

17.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

19.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

27.

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

28.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

30.

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

Euripides

31.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

32.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

Aaron McGruder

38.

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

39.

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

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

41.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

46.

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

47.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

48.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

49.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

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

Frost, Robert