Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auden, W. H.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Euripides

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Frida Kahlo

12.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

13.

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

Horace

14.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

15.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

16.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

21.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

22.

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

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

25.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

26.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

27.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

29.

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

Milton, John

30.

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

Manilius, Marcus

31.

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

Stephanie Klein

32.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

41.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

43.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

45.

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

Woody Allen

46.

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