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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

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

Donne, John

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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.

14.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

15.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

20.

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

21.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

22.

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

23.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

27.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

30.

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

Miller, Joaquin

31.

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

Milton, John

32.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

34.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

35.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

36.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

39.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

40.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

41.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Oscar Wilde

44.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

46.

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

47.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

48.

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

Berra, Yogi

49.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

50.

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

Havner, Vance