Motivational Quotes

Death

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Death

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Auerbach, Red

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

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Bronte, Emily

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

10.

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

Miller, Joaquin

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

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

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

16.

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

Carson, Johnny

17.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

21.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

22.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

24.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

25.

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

Hubbard, Kin

26.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

27.

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

Pamela Ribon

28.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

30.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

31.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

33.

'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

34.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

35.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

36.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

37.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

38.

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

39.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

40.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

41.

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

42.

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

Addison, Joseph

43.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Epicurus

47.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

48.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

49.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

50.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus