Motivational Quotes

Death

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hermes, Georg

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

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

Camus, Albert

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

11.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

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

13.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

14.

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

15.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

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

Bible

17.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

19.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

24.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

25.

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

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

31.

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

32.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

33.

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

34.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

35.

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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

43.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

44.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

45.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

46.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

47.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

48.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

49.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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