Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Hermes, Georg

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Craig Volk

10.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Palmerston, Lord

12.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.

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

Havner, Vance

14.

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

John Scalzi

15.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

18.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

21.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

26.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

34.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

35.

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

Randy K. Milholland

36.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

37.

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

38.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

40.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

41.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

42.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

43.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Gray, Thomas

46.

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

Johnny Carson

47.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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