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

1.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

2.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

3.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

4.

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

Horace

5.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

6.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

7.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

8.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

9.

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

Mitford, William

10.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

11.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

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

John Scalzi

13.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

14.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

Aaron McGruder

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

22.

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

Auden, W. H.

23.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

Darrow, Clarence

25.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

27.

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

Frida Kahlo

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Young, Edward

31.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

37.

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

Edith Sitwell

38.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

39.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Palmerston, Lord

41.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

42.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

45.

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

Barker, Clive

46.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

47.

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.

48.

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

Plato

49.

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

Allen, Woody

50.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily