Motivational Quotes

Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Havner, Vance

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bright, Grant M.

10.

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

11.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

12.

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

John Scalzi

13.

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

Macdonald, George

14.

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

Addison, Joseph

15.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

18.

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

Palmerston, Lord

19.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

20.

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

21.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

22.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

23.

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

24.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

25.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

31.

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

32.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

33.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

34.

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

Stephanie Klein

35.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

36.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

38.

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

Mitford, William

39.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

41.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

42.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

45.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

46.

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.