Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Publilius Syrus

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

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

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

Bertolt Brecht

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

10.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

13.

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

Horace

14.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

15.

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

16.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

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

Woody Allen

18.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

19.

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

20.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

22.

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

Aaron McGruder

23.

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

24.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

31.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

32.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

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

Diderot, Denis

35.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

36.

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.

37.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

38.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

39.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

41.

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

42.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.