Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mitford, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

11.

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

Becht, Ben

12.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

13.

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

14.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

Picabia, Francis

26.

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

27.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

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

Hermes, Georg

29.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

30.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

32.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

33.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

34.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

37.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

38.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

John Scalzi

43.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

44.

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

Bayly, Joseph

45.

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

46.

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

Bayly, Joseph

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

49.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

50.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John