Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Addison, Joseph

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

10.

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

11.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

12.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

21.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

22.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

23.

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

24.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

25.

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

Thrale, Hester i

26.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

27.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

39.

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

Frida Kahlo

40.

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.

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

43.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

46.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

Palmerston, Lord

48.

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