Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

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

10.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

19.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

20.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Becht, Ben

22.

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

Woody Allen

23.

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

Woody Allen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

27.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

28.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

29.

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

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

32.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

33.

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

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

36.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

37.

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

38.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

Keats, John

42.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

43.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

45.

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

46.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

47.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.