Motivational Quotes

Death

A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Bible

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

16.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

17.

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

Heidegger, Martin

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Woody Allen

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Havner, Vance

22.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

23.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

24.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

26.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

29.

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

30.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Barker, Clive

36.

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

37.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

38.

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

39.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

41.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

42.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

43.

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