Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Publilius Syrus

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Sophocles

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

14.

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

Dickinson, Emily

15.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

16.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

17.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

19.

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.

20.

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

Bayly, Joseph

21.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Woody Allen

23.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

27.

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

Ken, Thomas

28.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

Becht, Ben

31.

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

Beaumont, Francis

32.

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

Aaron McGruder

33.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

34.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

35.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

36.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

37.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

38.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

40.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

43.

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

Allen, Woody

44.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.