Motivational Quotes

Death

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Milton, John

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

10.

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

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

13.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

18.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

23.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

24.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

26.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

29.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

30.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Manilius, Marcus

33.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

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

Havner, Vance

39.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

40.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

41.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

42.

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

John Scalzi

43.

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

44.

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

Palmerston, Lord

45.

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

46.

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

Sophocles

47.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

48.

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

A. Sachs

49.

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