Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bible

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

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

Butler, Samuel

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

12.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

23.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

24.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

26.

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

Woody Allen

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

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

29.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

32.

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

33.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

35.

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

Havner, Vance

36.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

37.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

38.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

39.

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

Allen, Woody

41.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

42.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

46.

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

47.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

48.

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

Donne, John

49.

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

50.

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