Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Oscar Wilde

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Einstein, Albert

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

John Scalzi

10.

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

11.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

12.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

13.

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

14.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

24.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

25.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

26.

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

Forster, Edward M.

27.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

30.

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

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

32.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

35.

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

36.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

37.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Pamela Ribon

39.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

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

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

43.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

45.

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

Bible

46.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

47.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

48.

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

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug