Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Franklin, Benjamin

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

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

10.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

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

18.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

'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

20.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

21.

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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

26.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

28.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

29.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Canetti, Elias

31.

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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

33.

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

34.

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

Macdonald, George

35.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

36.

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

George Burns

37.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

38.

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

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

41.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

42.

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

Duffecy, James

43.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

44.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Camus, Albert

46.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

47.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

49.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

50.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre