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

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

10.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

11.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

Milton, John

17.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

18.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

A. Sachs

20.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

21.

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.

22.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

24.

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

Darrow, Clarence

25.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

26.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Bayly, Joseph

28.

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

Bacon, 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.

'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

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

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

33.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

34.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

35.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

36.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

37.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

38.

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

39.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

40.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

42.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

43.

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

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

46.

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

Charles II

47.

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

Epicurus

48.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

49.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous