Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

2.

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

Marvell, Andrew

3.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

4.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

5.

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

6.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

7.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

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

Butler, Samuel

9.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

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

12.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

13.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

14.

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

15.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

16.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

19.

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

George Burns

20.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

21.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

25.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

26.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

30.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

31.

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

Bagnold, Enid

32.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

34.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

35.

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

Publilius Syrus

36.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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

Donne, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

45.

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

Farber, Dave

46.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

47.

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

48.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

49.

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

Pamela Ribon

50.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles