Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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.

2.

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

Randy K. Milholland

3.

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

Allen, Woody

4.

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

5.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

6.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

7.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

8.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

9.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

14.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

15.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Chandler, Raymond

17.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

19.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

20.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

21.

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

22.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Woody Allen

27.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

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

John Scalzi

29.

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

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Ann Radcliffe

35.

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

Bible

36.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Bayly, Joseph

38.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

39.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

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

41.

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

Berra, Yogi

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

44.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

48.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.