Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

2.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

3.

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

Plato

4.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

5.

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

Bayly, Joseph

6.

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

Carson, Johnny

7.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

9.

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

Palmerston, Lord

10.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

11.

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

12.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Epicurus

14.

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

15.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Macdonald, George

19.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

23.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

24.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Chandler, Raymond

27.

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

28.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

29.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

30.

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

31.

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

Hermes, Georg

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

36.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

37.

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

Diderot, Denis

38.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

39.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

43.

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

George Burns

44.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

45.

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

Horace

46.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

47.

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

48.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

49.

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

Bible

50.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare