Motivational Quotes

Death

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Death

1.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

2.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

3.

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

4.

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

Miller, Joaquin

5.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

13.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

14.

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

Becht, Ben

15.

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

Craig Volk

16.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

17.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

19.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

Foster, John W.

24.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

29.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

30.

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

Darrow, Clarence

31.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

35.

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

36.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

37.

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

Macdonald, George

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

'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

40.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

41.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

42.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

43.

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

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

46.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

48.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

49.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

50.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage