Motivational Quotes

Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montgomery, James

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Diderot, Denis

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chandler, Raymond

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

10.

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

Bible

11.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

12.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

15.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

16.

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

17.

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

Manilius, Marcus

18.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

19.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

20.

'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

21.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

22.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

23.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Mitford, William

25.

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

26.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

27.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

28.

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

Farber, Dave

29.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

34.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

35.

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

36.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

37.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

46.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

47.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

48.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.