Motivational Quotes

Death

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Buffett, Jimmy

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

10.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

12.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

14.

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

Pamela Ribon

15.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

19.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

20.

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

Horace

21.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

26.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

27.

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

Donleavy, J. P.

28.

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

Stephanie Klein

29.

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

30.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

33.

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

David Assael

34.

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

35.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

39.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

40.

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

41.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

45.

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

Allen, Woody

46.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

47.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

48.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

49.

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

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus