Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Berra, Yogi

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Marvell, Andrew

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

10.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

11.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

12.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

13.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

15.

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

16.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

17.

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

Becht, Ben

18.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

19.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

20.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

21.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

22.

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

23.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

24.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

25.

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

26.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

27.

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

Plato

28.

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

29.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

30.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

31.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

34.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

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

36.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

37.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

38.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

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

Carson, Johnny

41.

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

42.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

43.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

44.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

45.

We are all dead men on leave.