Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Plato

2.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

3.

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

Bayly, Joseph

4.

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

Hook, Sydney

5.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

6.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

7.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

9.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Becht, Ben

14.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

15.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

17.

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

Macdonald, George

18.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

19.

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

20.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

Montgomery, James

25.

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

Darrow, Clarence

26.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

27.

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

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

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

30.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

31.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

32.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

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