Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Woody Allen

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

11.

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

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

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.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

15.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

16.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

21.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

22.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

24.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

Allen, Woody

26.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

27.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

28.

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

Becht, Ben

29.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

32.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

33.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

34.

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

Heidegger, Martin

35.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.