Motivational Quotes

Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bible

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

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

Becht, Ben

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

Sophocles

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

12.

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

Keats, John

13.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

14.

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

Pamela Ribon

15.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

16.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

17.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

24.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

25.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Barker, Clive

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

29.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

30.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

31.

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

32.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Marvell, Andrew

36.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

37.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

38.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

39.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

40.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

46.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

47.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

48.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

49.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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