Motivational Quotes

Death

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Death

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Stephanie Klein

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Duffecy, James

13.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

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

Marvell, Andrew

15.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

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

17.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

20.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

21.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

24.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

25.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

27.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Palmerston, Lord

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

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

Heidegger, Martin

36.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

37.

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

38.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

41.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

42.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

43.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

44.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

45.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily