Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Einstein, Albert

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Montgomery, James

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

10.

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

11.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

12.

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

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

15.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

21.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Auden, W. H.

23.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

24.

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

25.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

26.

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

27.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

28.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

29.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

30.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

31.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

32.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

33.

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

34.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Diderot, Denis

37.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

38.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

39.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

Euripides

43.

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

Cocteau, Jean

44.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

47.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

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