Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about 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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Becht, Ben

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

11.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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

15.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

16.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

17.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

20.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

21.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

24.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

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

Frost, Robert

26.

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

27.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

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

Dryden, John

29.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

31.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

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

37.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

39.

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

Bible

40.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

41.

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

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

46.

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

47.

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

Hoffer, Eric

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides