Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bible

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

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

Allen, Woody

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hendrix, Jimi

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

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

11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

13.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

Gray, Thomas

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

19.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

20.

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

Mann, Thomas

21.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

23.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

24.

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

Addison, Joseph

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

27.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

28.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

29.

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

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

32.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

33.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

37.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

38.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

39.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

41.

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

42.

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

Carson, Johnny

43.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

44.

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.

45.

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

George Burns

46.

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

47.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

48.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

49.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag