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

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

Craig Volk

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Young, Edward

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

Keats, John

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

Macarthur, Douglas

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Eliot, George

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

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.

11.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

13.

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

Horace

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

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

Palmerston, Lord

16.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

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

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

22.

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

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.

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

25.

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

26.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

27.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

31.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

33.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

34.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

35.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

36.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

38.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

40.

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

Havner, Vance

41.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

45.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

John Scalzi

47.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

48.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

49.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plato