Motivational Quotes

Death

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bible

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Horace

18.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

19.

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

20.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

21.

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

Lucan, F. L.

22.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

23.

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

Bertolt Brecht

24.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

25.

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

26.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

27.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

28.

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

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

A. Sachs

31.

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

Thrale, Hester i

32.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

37.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Forster, Edward M.

39.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

40.

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

41.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

42.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

43.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

44.

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

45.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

46.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

48.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

50.

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