Motivational Quotes

Death

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Woody Allen

10.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

11.

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

12.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

13.

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

Keats, John

14.

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

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Bayly, Joseph

20.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

22.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

26.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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 the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Keats, John

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

34.

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

35.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

Montgomery, James

38.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

39.

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

Bible

40.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Gray, Thomas

43.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Berra, Yogi

47.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

48.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

49.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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