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

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Heidegger, Martin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

12.

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

13.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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

Epicurus

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

17.

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

18.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

19.

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

Woody Allen

20.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

21.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

22.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

23.

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.

24.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

25.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Stephanie Klein

28.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

29.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

30.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

31.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

33.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

39.

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

Montgomery, James

40.

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.

41.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

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

47.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

48.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

49.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

50.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell