Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

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 will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plato

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

14.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

15.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

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

17.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

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

Duffecy, James

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

22.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

23.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

26.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

Farber, Dave

29.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

Frida Kahlo

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

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

36.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

37.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

38.

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

Craig Volk

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

41.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

42.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Macdonald, George

45.

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

46.

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

Young, Edward

47.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

48.

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

49.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

50.

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

Hamilton, Hugh