Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Epictetus

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Farber, Dave

10.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bagnold, Enid

14.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

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

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

18.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

19.

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

Randy K. Milholland

20.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

21.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

22.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

23.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

24.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

28.

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

Hook, Sydney

29.

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

Bible

30.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

33.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

34.

'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

35.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

36.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

39.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

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

Lowell, James Russell

41.

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

Carson, Johnny

42.

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

43.

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

44.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

45.

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

46.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

Montgomery, James

49.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.