Motivational Quotes

Death

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Dyer, Wayne

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Einstein, Albert

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

10.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

11.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

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

21.

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

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

Bryant, William C.

23.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

24.

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

25.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

27.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

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

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

30.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

33.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

34.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

40.

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

Aaron McGruder

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

43.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

44.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

48.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.