Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Young, Edward

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Woody Allen

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

13.

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

Macdonald, George

14.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

16.

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

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

20.

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

21.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

22.

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

Auerbach, Red

23.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

24.

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

Bronte, Emily

25.

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

26.

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

Frida Kahlo

27.

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

Matt Frewer

28.

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

29.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

32.

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

Foster, John W.

33.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

34.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

36.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

37.

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

38.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

39.

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

Thrale, Hester i

40.

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.

41.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

46.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

49.

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

Addison, Joseph

50.

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

Palmerston, Lord