Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Donne, John

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

12.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

13.

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

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

16.

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

Bible

17.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

20.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

21.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

22.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

30.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

31.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

32.

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

33.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

34.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

Plato

39.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

41.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

42.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

46.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

47.

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

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

Canetti, Elias

50.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho