Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Johnny Carson

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

Addison, Joseph

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

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

Stephanie Klein

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Ken, Thomas

17.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

18.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

19.

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

20.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

22.

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

23.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

24.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

25.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

27.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

32.

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.

33.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

34.

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

Bertolt Brecht

35.

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

36.

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

Canetti, Elias

37.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

38.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

Palmerston, Lord

40.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

41.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

42.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

43.

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

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

47.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

Donne, John

49.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

50.

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

Fromm, Erich