Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Miller, Joaquin

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Havner, Vance

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

10.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

13.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

14.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

15.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

16.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

18.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

19.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

20.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

24.

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

Barker, Clive

25.

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

26.

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

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

29.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

30.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

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

Craig Volk

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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.

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

Frost, Robert

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

39.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

40.

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

Palmerston, Lord

41.

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

Woody Allen

42.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

44.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

Marvell, Andrew

50.

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.