Motivational Quotes

Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Plato

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Sophocles

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Foster, John W.

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

Dryden, John

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

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

David Assael

12.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

14.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

16.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

20.

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

21.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

22.

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

23.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

24.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Bagnold, Enid

26.

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

Bhagavad Gita

27.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

28.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

John Scalzi

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Auerbach, Red

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

38.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

40.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

41.

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

Marvell, Andrew

42.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

43.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Diderot, Denis

45.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

48.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

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.

50.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset