Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all dead men on leave.

- Levine, Eugene

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Ken, Thomas

12.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

15.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

22.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

23.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

24.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

25.

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

Bible

26.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

29.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

31.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

32.

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

33.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

34.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

37.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

38.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

39.

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

40.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

42.

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

Keats, John

43.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

44.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

45.

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

46.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

48.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

49.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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