Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Edith Sitwell

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Duffecy, James

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

10.

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

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

16.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

17.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

18.

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

19.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Craig Volk

21.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

22.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

23.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Pamela Ribon

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

31.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

32.

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

33.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

34.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

35.

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

Horace

36.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

37.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

38.

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

Bryant, William C.

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

41.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

42.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

43.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

44.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

45.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

46.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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