Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

2.

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

3.

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

Lucan, F. L.

4.

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

Miller, Joaquin

5.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

6.

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

Palmerston, Lord

7.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

8.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

9.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

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

Matt Frewer

12.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

16.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

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

Mitford, William

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

20.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

22.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

23.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

24.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Bible

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

33.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

34.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

35.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

36.

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

Lowell, James Russell

37.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.