Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Buffett, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

A. Sachs

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

Montgomery, James

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Marvell, Andrew

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

10.

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

11.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

12.

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

13.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

14.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

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

Picabia, Francis

16.

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

17.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

20.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

22.

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

Miller, Joaquin

23.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

24.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

27.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

28.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

30.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

31.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

32.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

33.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Woody Allen

35.

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

Stephanie Klein

36.

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

Beaumont, Francis

37.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

38.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

43.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Craig Volk

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

49.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

50.

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.