Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Woody Allen

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Euripides

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

10.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

12.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

13.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

14.

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

15.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

20.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

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

23.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

25.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

26.

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

Bible

27.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

30.

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

Ken, Thomas

31.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

32.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

33.

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

Epicurus

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

36.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

37.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

38.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Cocteau, Jean

41.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Bible

43.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

44.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

45.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

46.

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

Epicurus

47.

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

48.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

49.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

50.

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

Auerbach, Red