Motivational Quotes

Death

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plato

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

10.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

11.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

12.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

13.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

14.

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

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

17.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

18.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

19.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

22.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

23.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

24.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

26.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

27.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

29.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

37.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

39.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Bible

46.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.