Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Byron, Lord

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Marvell, Andrew

10.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

11.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

12.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

13.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

20.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

21.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

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

Matt Frewer

23.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

24.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

25.

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

Berra, Yogi

26.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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.

28.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

29.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

31.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

34.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

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

Forster, Edward M.

37.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

38.

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

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

40.

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.

41.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

42.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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

44.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

45.

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.

46.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

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

Woody Allen

49.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

50.

We are all dead men on leave.