Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Bronte, Emily

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

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

Darrow, Clarence

13.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

20.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

21.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

25.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

26.

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

Bagnold, Enid

27.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

28.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

30.

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

Bayly, Joseph

31.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

32.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

33.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Pamela Ribon

42.

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

43.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

45.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

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

50.

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

Lucan, F. L.