Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Horace

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

10.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

11.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

13.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

14.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Charles II

17.

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

Keats, John

18.

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

Duffecy, James

19.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

25.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

27.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

28.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

33.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Johnny Carson

35.

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

Woody Allen

36.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

37.

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

Palmerston, Lord

38.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

39.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

41.

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

42.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

43.

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

Allen, Woody

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