Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Craig Volk

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Keats, John

14.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

15.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

16.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

18.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

19.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

20.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

25.

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

Randy K. Milholland

26.

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

27.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

28.

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.

29.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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

Allen, Woody

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.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

36.

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

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

43.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

44.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

45.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

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

Canetti, Elias

48.

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

49.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.