Motivational Quotes

Death

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Mitford, William

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Young, Edward

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Farber, Dave

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

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

13.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

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

19.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

Dryden, John

21.

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

22.

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

23.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

25.

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

26.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

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

Hook, Sydney

29.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

30.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

31.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

34.

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

Palmerston, Lord

35.

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

Macdonald, George

36.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

38.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

39.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

40.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

41.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Ken, Thomas

43.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

45.

'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

46.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

48.

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

Carson, Johnny

49.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

50.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.