Motivational Quotes

Death

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

- Epitaph

Best Quotes about Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Woody Allen

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

20.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

21.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

22.

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

Carson, Johnny

23.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

24.

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

Canetti, Elias

25.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

27.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

28.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

32.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

33.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

35.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

36.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

37.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

38.

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

39.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

41.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

42.

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

43.

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

Johnny Carson

44.

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

45.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

46.

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

47.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

48.

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

Publilius Syrus

49.

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

50.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II