Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

- Hugh Elliott

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Allen, Woody

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Darrow, Clarence

13.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

14.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

15.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

24.

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

Euripides

25.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Johnny Carson

28.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

29.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

30.

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

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

32.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

34.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

36.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

37.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

38.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

39.

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

Barker, Clive

40.

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

41.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

42.

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

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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