Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bible

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

10.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

13.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

14.

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

Gray, Thomas

15.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

16.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

20.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

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

Young, Edward

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

26.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

29.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

36.

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

37.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

38.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

40.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

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

42.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

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

44.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.