Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Beaumont, Francis

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Bible

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Hubbard, Kin

10.

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

11.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Epicurus

14.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

15.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

16.

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

Barker, Clive

17.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

18.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

19.

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

Mitford, William

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

22.

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

Montgomery, James

23.

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

Bright, Grant M.

24.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

26.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

27.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

29.

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

30.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

31.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

36.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

37.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

38.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

40.

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

Milton, John

41.

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

Bhagavad Gita

42.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

46.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

Bible

49.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

50.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De