Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Fielding, Henry

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hamilton, Hugh

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Woody Allen

10.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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.

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

13.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

15.

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

Farber, Dave

16.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

18.

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.

19.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

22.

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

Horace

23.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

24.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

25.

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

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

28.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

30.

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

31.

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

Craig Volk

32.

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

33.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

38.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Johnny Carson

40.

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

Epicurus

41.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

42.

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

Stephanie Klein

43.

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

44.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

45.

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

46.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

47.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

48.

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

Canetti, Elias

49.

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.

50.

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