Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Darrow, Clarence

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Matt Frewer

10.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

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

Beaumont, Francis

12.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

15.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

16.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

17.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

21.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

22.

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

Johnny Carson

23.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

24.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

25.

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

Keats, John

26.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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.

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

29.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

'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

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

34.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

35.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

36.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

37.

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

38.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Bronte, Emily

40.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

41.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

45.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

46.

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

47.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

48.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.