Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ken, Thomas

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Bible

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

10.

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.

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

13.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

15.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

16.

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

17.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

20.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Becht, Ben

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

27.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

28.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

32.

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

Milton, John

33.

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

Charles II

34.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

35.

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

36.

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

Thrale, Hester i

37.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

38.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

39.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

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