Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Epicurus

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Bayly, Joseph

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

12.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

15.

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

Donne, John

16.

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

Havner, Vance

17.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

18.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

19.

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

Johnny Carson

20.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

21.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Keats, John

23.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

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

26.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

27.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

29.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

32.

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.

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

35.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

36.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

38.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

40.

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

Randy K. Milholland

41.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

42.

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

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

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

Cocteau, Jean

46.

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

Farber, Dave

47.

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

48.

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

Chandler, Raymond

49.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah