Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Bible

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Montgomery, James

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

12.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

14.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

15.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Bronte, Emily

20.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

22.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

23.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

25.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

27.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

28.

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

29.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

30.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

35.

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

37.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

40.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

41.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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