Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

10.

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

11.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

14.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

15.

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

Duffecy, James

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

Pamela Ribon

21.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

22.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Bryant, William C.

24.

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.

25.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

26.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

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

28.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

29.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

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

33.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

34.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

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

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

Keats, John

37.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eliot, George

39.

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

40.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

41.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

42.

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

Frost, Robert

43.

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

Marvell, Andrew

44.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

45.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

46.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

48.

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

Woody Allen

49.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous