Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

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

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Matt Frewer

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

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

Aaron McGruder

11.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

12.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

13.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

17.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

19.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

20.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

26.

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

Bhagavad Gita

27.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

28.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

29.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

30.

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

Randy K. Milholland

31.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

32.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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.

34.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

35.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

36.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

37.

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

Stephanie Klein

38.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

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

40.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

41.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

42.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

45.

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

46.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

47.

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

Bayly, Joseph

48.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

49.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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