Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Allen, Woody

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

11.

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

Matt Frewer

12.

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

13.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

16.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

17.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Bagnold, Enid

20.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

23.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

24.

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

Woody Allen

25.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

26.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

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

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

29.

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.

30.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

31.

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

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

Epicurus

33.

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

34.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

35.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

36.

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

Farber, Dave

37.

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

Horace

38.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

39.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

40.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

42.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

46.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

48.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

49.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

50.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho