Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Epicurus

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Duffecy, James

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

10.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

11.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

12.

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

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

15.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Bright, Grant M.

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

20.

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

21.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

31.

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

32.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

35.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

Palmerston, Lord

37.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

41.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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

43.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

45.

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

46.

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

Allen, Woody

47.

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

Montgomery, James

48.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Horace

50.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht