Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

11.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

12.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

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

Bryant, William C.

14.

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

15.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

16.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Forster, Edward M.

18.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

22.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

25.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

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

29.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

33.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

35.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Ken, Thomas

39.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

40.

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

41.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

43.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Bible

49.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

50.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth