Motivational Quotes

Death

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Death

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Epicurus

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

Randy K. Milholland

11.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

14.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

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

Edith Sitwell

18.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

19.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

20.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

21.

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

Auerbach, Red

22.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

28.

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

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

31.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

32.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Horace

35.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

38.

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

39.

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

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.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

44.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

46.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

Frida Kahlo

48.

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

Bright, Grant M.

49.

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