Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

- Hope, James Barron

Best Quotes about Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Pamela Ribon

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Frost, Robert

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

Publilius Syrus

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Johnny Carson

10.

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

Bhagavad Gita

11.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

12.

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

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

Hermes, Georg

14.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

15.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

16.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

18.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

19.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

20.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

21.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

22.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

23.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

24.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

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

Manilius, Marcus

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

33.

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

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Fromm, Erich

35.

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

36.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

37.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

42.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

43.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

Dryden, John

45.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

46.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

47.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

48.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

49.

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

Carson, Johnny

50.

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

Woody Allen