Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Euripides

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

10.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

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

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

17.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

18.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

19.

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

Epicurus

20.

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

Matt Frewer

21.

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

22.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

23.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

26.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Donne, John

28.

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

Havner, Vance

29.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

30.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

31.

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

Hook, Sydney

32.

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

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

36.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

38.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

39.

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

Bright, Grant M.

40.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

41.

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

Diderot, Denis

42.

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