Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Nepos, Cornelius

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Bagnold, Enid

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Camus, Albert

10.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

11.

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

12.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

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

Edith Sitwell

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

17.

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

Duffecy, James

18.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

19.

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

20.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

21.

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

Auerbach, Red

22.

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

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

25.

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

Ann Radcliffe

26.

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

Gide, Andre

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.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

30.

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

Johnny Carson

31.

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.

32.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

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

Macdonald, George

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Craig Volk

36.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

37.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

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

39.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

Dryden, John

41.

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

Bertolt Brecht

42.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Stephanie Klein

44.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

45.

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

Marvell, Andrew

46.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

47.

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

Foster, John W.

48.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

50.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De