Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

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

Havner, Vance

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Bryant, William C.

14.

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.

15.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

16.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Craig Volk

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

22.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

23.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

26.

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.

27.

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

Bronte, Emily

28.

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

Johnny Carson

29.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

30.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

31.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

Pamela Ribon

33.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

34.

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

35.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

36.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

37.

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

38.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

39.

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.

40.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

45.

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

46.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

47.

'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

48.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

49.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

50.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich