Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Butler, Samuel

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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.

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

Mann, Thomas

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

12.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

13.

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

14.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

15.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

16.

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

17.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

19.

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

Gray, Thomas

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

23.

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

Montgomery, James

24.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

25.

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

Manilius, Marcus

26.

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

27.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Sophocles

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

34.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Donne, John

36.

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

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Epicurus

39.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

40.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Becht, Ben

42.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

43.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

44.

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

45.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

46.

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

47.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

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

Ken, Thomas

49.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

50.

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