Motivational Quotes

Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

- Hamilton, Hugh

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Montgomery, James

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

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

12.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

13.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Woody Allen

15.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

16.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

17.

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

18.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

19.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

21.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

22.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

23.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Keats, John

25.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

26.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

27.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

28.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

29.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

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.

31.

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

Mann, Thomas

32.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

33.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Epicurus

36.

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

37.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

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

Stephanie Klein

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

42.

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

Manilius, Marcus

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

George Burns

46.

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

Milton, John

47.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

48.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

50.

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

Eliot, George