Motivational Quotes

Death

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

11.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

12.

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

13.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Johnny Carson

15.

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

David Assael

16.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

17.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

18.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

20.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Milton, John

22.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

23.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

25.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

27.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

29.

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

Edith Sitwell

30.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

34.

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

35.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

36.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

37.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

42.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

43.

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

44.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.