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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Johnny Carson

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

10.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

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

12.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

16.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

17.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

18.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

19.

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

Epicurus

20.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

21.

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

22.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

23.

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

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

26.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

28.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

29.

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

George Burns

30.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

33.

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

Marvell, Andrew

34.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

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

36.

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

Foster, John W.

37.

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

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

40.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

43.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

44.

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

47.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

48.

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