Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

1.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

2.

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

Fromm, Erich

3.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

4.

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

5.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

6.

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

Frost, Robert

7.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

8.

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

9.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

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

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11.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

12.

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

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13.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

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

20.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

21.

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

Darrow, Clarence

22.

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

Epicurus

23.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

24.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

25.

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

26.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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

Duffecy, James

29.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

32.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

33.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

35.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

36.

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

Berra, Yogi

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Dryden, John

39.

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

40.

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

Randy K. Milholland

41.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

42.

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

Foster, John W.

43.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

44.

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

Macdonald, George

45.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

46.

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

47.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

48.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

49.

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

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50.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.