Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plato

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

10.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

11.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

14.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Gray, Thomas

16.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

17.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

'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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

22.

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.

23.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Hubbard, Kin

26.

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

27.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

30.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

31.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

32.

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.

33.

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

Camus, Albert

34.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

39.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

40.

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

Luther, Martin

41.

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

42.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

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

45.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

46.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

47.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

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

Bronte, Emily