Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Keats, John

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horace

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bright, Grant M.

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

16.

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

17.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

18.

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

19.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

20.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

21.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

22.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Eliot, George

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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

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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

27.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Havner, Vance

29.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

30.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

31.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

32.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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.

34.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

35.

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

Gide, Andre

36.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

40.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

41.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

42.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

43.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

44.

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

Farber, Dave

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.