Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Epictetus

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

Foster, John W.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

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

Plato

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

16.

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

17.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

18.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

20.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

23.

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

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

26.

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

27.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

32.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

34.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

35.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Matt Frewer

37.

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

38.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

39.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

41.

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

42.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Miller, Joaquin

45.

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