Motivational Quotes

Death

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

2.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

4.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

6.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

7.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

8.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

9.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

10.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

14.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

15.

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

Pamela Ribon

16.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

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

Macdonald, George

19.

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

Barker, Clive

20.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

21.

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

22.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

24.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

25.

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

26.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

27.

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

28.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

Stephanie Klein

31.

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

Edith Sitwell

32.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

35.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Dryden, John

39.

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

Farber, Dave

40.

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