Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Miller, Joaquin

2.

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

A. Sachs

3.

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

4.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

5.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

7.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

8.

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

9.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

11.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

Oscar Wilde

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

20.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

24.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

25.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

26.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

27.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

28.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

31.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

32.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

33.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

34.

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

Bayly, Joseph

35.

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

36.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

37.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

38.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

39.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

40.

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