Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

10.

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

11.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

14.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

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

Woody Allen

16.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

17.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

18.

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

19.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

24.

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

25.

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

Forster, Edward M.

26.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

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

Auerbach, Red

29.

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

30.

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

Epicurus

31.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

34.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

35.

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

36.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

37.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

38.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

41.

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

Matt Frewer

42.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

43.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

44.

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

Darrow, Clarence

45.

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

46.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

47.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

48.

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

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

50.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph