Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

11.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

13.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

15.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

17.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

19.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

20.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

21.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Fromm, Erich

26.

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

Bronte, Emily

27.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

28.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

29.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

31.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

33.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

34.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

35.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

36.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

37.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Canetti, Elias

43.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

45.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.