Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Fielding, Henry

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

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

Farber, Dave

10.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

11.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

12.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

13.

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

Matt Frewer

14.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

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

Macdonald, George

17.

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

18.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

Pamela Ribon

20.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

21.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

22.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

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

Bayly, Joseph

25.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

26.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

27.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

30.

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

31.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

33.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

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

35.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

37.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

39.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

41.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

42.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

43.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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.