Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Donne, John

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Young, Edward

12.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

13.

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

Horace

14.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

15.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

18.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

20.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

22.

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.

23.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

25.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

26.

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

27.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

28.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

29.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

30.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

32.

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

33.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

34.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

36.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

41.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

42.

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

43.

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

Bagnold, Enid

44.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

45.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

46.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

48.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

49.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

50.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell