Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Plato

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Stephanie Klein

10.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

18.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

19.

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

Bible

20.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Foster, John W.

22.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

23.

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

Frost, Robert

24.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

25.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

27.

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

28.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

29.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

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

Hook, Sydney

34.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

35.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

36.

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

Epicurus

37.

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

Macdonald, George

38.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Horace

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

Farber, Dave

47.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

48.

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