Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Bright, Grant M.

14.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

15.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

16.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

17.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

19.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

20.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

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

26.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

27.

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

28.

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

Gide, Andre

29.

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

Johnny Carson

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Bertolt Brecht

32.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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.

34.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

35.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

36.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

37.

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

Bible

38.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

40.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

41.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

42.

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

Woody Allen

43.

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

Diderot, Denis

44.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

45.

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

46.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily