Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dickinson, Emily

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Aaron McGruder

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

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

10.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

11.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

14.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

15.

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

16.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

17.

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

18.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

19.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

20.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

21.

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

22.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

26.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

27.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

29.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

30.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

31.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

32.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

33.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

34.

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

Farber, Dave

35.

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

36.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Horace

39.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

41.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

44.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

45.

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

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

48.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

49.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

50.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland