Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Moody, Dwight L.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Allen, Woody

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Bright, Grant M.

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

18.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

19.

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

20.

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

John Scalzi

21.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

22.

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

Lucan, F. L.

23.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

24.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

25.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

30.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

Palmerston, Lord

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Charles II

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

38.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

40.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

41.

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

Milton, John

42.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

Horace

47.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

48.

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

49.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

50.

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

Oscar Wilde