Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Moody, Dwight L.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

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

Epicurus

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

11.

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

12.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

13.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Montgomery, James

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

Donne, John

17.

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

18.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

19.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

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

21.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

22.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

23.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

25.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

26.

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

27.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

28.

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

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

31.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

32.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

33.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

36.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

39.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

41.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

42.

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

43.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

44.

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

Gray, Thomas

45.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

46.

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

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

49.

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

50.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.