Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Bible

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

W. Somerset Maugham

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Allen, Woody

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

11.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

13.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

18.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

23.

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

Epicurus

24.

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

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Foster, John W.

27.

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

Johnny Carson

28.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

29.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

David Assael

31.

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.

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

Plato

37.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

41.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

42.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

43.

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

44.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

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

Havner, Vance

48.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

49.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

50.

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