Motivational Quotes

Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

- Osborne, John

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Eliot, George

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lowell, James Russell

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

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

Manilius, Marcus

17.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

18.

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

19.

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

20.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

24.

'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

25.

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

Mann, Thomas

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

32.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

33.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

36.

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

37.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Euripides

43.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

44.

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

Allen, Woody

45.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

48.

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

Oscar Wilde

49.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

50.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.