Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

11.

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

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

'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

16.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

17.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

18.

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

19.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Johnny Carson

21.

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

Montgomery, James

22.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

25.

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

Beaumont, Francis

26.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

27.

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

28.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

29.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

31.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

33.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Havner, Vance

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

38.

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

Edith Sitwell

39.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

40.

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

41.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

44.

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

Bryant, William C.

45.

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

Miller, Joaquin

46.

'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

47.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

48.

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

Macdonald, George

49.

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

50.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia