Motivational Quotes

Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Death

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

William Shakespeare

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

Edith Sitwell

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sophocles

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

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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.

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

13.

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

14.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

15.

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

16.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

17.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

18.

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

19.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

20.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

21.

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

22.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Macdonald, George

27.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

29.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

31.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

33.

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

34.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

35.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

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

Bayly, Joseph

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

41.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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.

43.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

44.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

46.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

47.

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

48.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De