Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

3.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

5.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

8.

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

Charles II

9.

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

10.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

17.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

18.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

19.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

20.

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

21.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

22.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

26.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

27.

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

28.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

29.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Lucan, F. L.

33.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

34.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

35.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Thrale, Hester i

39.

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

40.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

41.

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

Pamela Ribon

42.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

44.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

45.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

47.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

48.

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

Plato

49.

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

Camus, Albert

50.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.