Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

Havner, Vance

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Aaron McGruder

13.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

14.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

15.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

16.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

17.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

20.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

21.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

22.

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

23.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

24.

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

Plato

25.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

26.

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

27.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Camus, Albert

31.

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

Young, Edward

32.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

34.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

35.

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

Hermes, Georg

36.

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

Darrow, Clarence

38.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Frida Kahlo

40.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

41.

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

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

44.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

45.

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