Motivational Quotes

Death

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

3.

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

Foster, John W.

4.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

5.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

6.

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

Frost, Robert

7.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

8.

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

Epictetus

9.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

10.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

12.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

13.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

15.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

16.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

17.

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

Epicurus

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

20.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

22.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

25.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

29.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

30.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

31.

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

32.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

35.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

36.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

37.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

39.

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

Stephanie Klein

40.

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

Auerbach, Red

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

42.

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