Motivational Quotes

Death

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bible

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

10.

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

Cocteau, Jean

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

14.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Bayly, Joseph

18.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

19.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

21.

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

Darrow, Clarence

22.

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

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

25.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

26.

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

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

John Scalzi

29.

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

David Assael

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

34.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

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

Stephanie Klein

36.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

37.

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

38.

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

Young, Edward

39.

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

40.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

41.

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

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

43.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.