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

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

Bible

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

11.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

13.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

16.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

17.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

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

Epicurus

19.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

20.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Bright, Grant M.

22.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Miller, Joaquin

24.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

Frida Kahlo

26.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

31.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

32.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

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

Craig Volk

36.

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.

37.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

40.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

41.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

42.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

43.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

44.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

45.

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

Euripides

46.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

47.

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

Publilius Syrus

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Woody Allen