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

1.

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

2.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

'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

4.

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

5.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

6.

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

Canetti, Elias

7.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

8.

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

Ann Radcliffe

9.

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

12.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

14.

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

15.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

16.

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

John Scalzi

17.

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

Euripides

18.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

19.

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

Bright, Grant M.

20.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

21.

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

Duffecy, James

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

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

26.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

30.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

33.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

34.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

35.

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

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

39.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

40.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Allen, Woody

45.

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

Berra, Yogi

46.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

47.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.