Motivational Quotes

Death

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Carson, Johnny

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

10.

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.

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

12.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

16.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

20.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

28.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

29.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

32.

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

Miller, Joaquin

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

35.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

36.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

37.

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

38.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

39.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

Foster, John W.

43.

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

44.

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

Plato

45.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

46.

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

47.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

48.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

49.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

50.

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

Woody Allen