Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Dickinson, Emily

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

14.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

15.

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

Bhagavad Gita

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

18.

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

19.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

20.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

21.

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

22.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

23.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

24.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Bible

29.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

31.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

32.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

33.

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.

Donne, John

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

36.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

38.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

39.

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

Duffecy, James

40.

He has gone over to the majority.