Motivational Quotes

Death

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Bible

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

Fromm, Erich

12.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

13.

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

14.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

15.

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

Darrow, Clarence

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

19.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

20.

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

Randy K. Milholland

21.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

25.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

26.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

27.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

37.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

38.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

42.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Auerbach, Red

46.

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

47.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

48.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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