Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

11.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Charles II

14.

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

Auerbach, Red

15.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

18.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

19.

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

Barker, Clive

20.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

25.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

26.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

27.

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

Mann, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Marvell, Andrew

34.

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

Havner, Vance

35.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

42.

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

Hook, Sydney

43.

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

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

46.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

48.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

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

Bagnold, Enid

50.

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