Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

Becht, Ben

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

10.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

11.

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

12.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

16.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

Craig Volk

19.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

20.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

21.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

25.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

32.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

37.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

38.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

39.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Milton, John

45.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

46.

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