Motivational Quotes

Death

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

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

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.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Woody Allen

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

Stephanie Klein

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

13.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

14.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

16.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Hermes, Georg

18.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

20.

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

Canetti, Elias

21.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

22.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

23.

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

24.

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

Miller, Joaquin

25.

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

Allen, Woody

26.

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

Lowell, James Russell

27.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

28.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Greene, Graham

36.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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.

38.

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

Craig Volk

39.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

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

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

45.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

46.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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

Publilius Syrus

48.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.