Motivational Quotes

Death

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Darrow, Clarence

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

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

Bronte, Emily

12.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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.

14.

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

Bayly, Joseph

15.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

16.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

17.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

18.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Montgomery, James

21.

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

22.

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

Epicurus

23.

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

Auerbach, Red

24.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

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

27.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

28.

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

29.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

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

Bright, Grant M.

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

34.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

35.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

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

Thrale, Hester i

39.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

40.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

41.

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

Berra, Yogi

42.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

43.

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

Dickinson, Emily

44.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

47.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

48.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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