Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Fielding, Henry

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Plato

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

14.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

15.

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

Gray, Thomas

16.

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

Auerbach, Red

17.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

18.

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

19.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

20.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

22.

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

Craig Volk

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

25.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

26.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

28.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

34.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

35.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

36.

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

37.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

38.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

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

Dryden, John

40.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

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

Keats, John

44.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

49.

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

Addison, Joseph

50.

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