Motivational Quotes

Death

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

10.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

11.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

14.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

17.

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

Bright, Grant M.

18.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

19.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

20.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

22.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

24.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

25.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

27.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

31.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

32.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

35.

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

36.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

37.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

38.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

42.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

43.

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

Bronte, Emily

44.

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

Fielding, Henry

45.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

46.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

47.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

48.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

49.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

50.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond