Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Stephanie Klein

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Barker, Clive

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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

10.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

11.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

14.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

17.

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

18.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

19.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

20.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

22.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

23.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

24.

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

25.

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

Epicurus

26.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Woody Allen

29.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

30.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

31.

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

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

34.

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

Bronte, Emily

35.

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

Horace

36.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

39.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

40.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

41.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

42.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

44.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Bagnold, Enid

49.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.