Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Death

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bronte, Emily

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

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

14.

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

Manilius, Marcus

15.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

16.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

17.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

18.

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.

Osborne, John

19.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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.

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

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

25.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

26.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

28.

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

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

31.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

32.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

33.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

34.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

42.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

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

46.

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

Darrow, Clarence

47.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

48.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Milton, John

50.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug