Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Matt Frewer

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

Randy K. Milholland

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.

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

11.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

12.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

16.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

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

Bible

18.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

19.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

22.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

26.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

29.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

32.

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

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

35.

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

Lucan, F. L.

36.

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

37.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

38.

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

Carson, Johnny

39.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

40.

'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

41.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Plato

43.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

50.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous