Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Death

1.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

2.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

3.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

4.

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

5.

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

Becht, Ben

6.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

7.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

8.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

9.

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

10.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

12.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

14.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

15.

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

16.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

17.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

18.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Palmerston, Lord

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

23.

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

Epicurus

24.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

25.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

26.

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

27.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

28.

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

Mitford, William

29.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

30.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

31.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

32.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

33.

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

34.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

35.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

Bright, Grant M.

38.

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

39.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

40.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

41.

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

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

44.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

47.

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

Darrow, Clarence

48.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

49.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.