Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Bible

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Eliot, George

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

10.

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

Montgomery, James

11.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

12.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

13.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

15.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

16.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

17.

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

Bayly, Joseph

18.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

22.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

23.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

24.

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

25.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

26.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

'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

28.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

30.

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

Craig Volk

31.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

32.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

33.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

34.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

35.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

36.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Epicurus

38.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

39.

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

Bertolt Brecht

40.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

41.

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

Bronte, Emily

42.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

43.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

48.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

49.

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

50.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel