Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

2.

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

Eliot, George

3.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

4.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

5.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

6.

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

7.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

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

11.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

12.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

15.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

16.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

20.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

21.

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

Mann, Thomas

22.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

23.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

24.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

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

Duffecy, James

31.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

32.

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

Picabia, Francis

33.

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

34.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

35.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Stephanie Klein

37.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

38.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

41.

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

A. Sachs

42.

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

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

A useless life is an early death.