Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Woody Allen

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

Craig Volk

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

10.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

11.

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

12.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

13.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

14.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

15.

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

Plato

16.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

19.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

20.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

21.

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

Epicurus

22.

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

23.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

25.

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

26.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Canetti, Elias

28.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Horace

30.

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

Bible

31.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

35.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

36.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

37.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

38.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

42.

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

Euripides

43.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

45.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

46.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

47.

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

48.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

49.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.