Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Plato

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Bible

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

11.

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

Duffecy, James

12.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

13.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

14.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

15.

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

Greene, Graham

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

20.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

25.

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

26.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

27.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

28.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

29.

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

30.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Becht, Ben

33.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

34.

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

Palmerston, Lord

35.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

36.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

37.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

38.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

39.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Mitford, William

47.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

48.

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

49.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

50.

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