Motivational Quotes

Death

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

- Stephanie Klein

Best Quotes about Death

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

Keats, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Eliot, George

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

10.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

11.

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

Donne, John

12.

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

13.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

14.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

15.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

17.

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

18.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

19.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

22.

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

Epicurus

23.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

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

26.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

28.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

31.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

32.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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.

35.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

37.

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

Horace

38.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

40.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

George Burns

43.

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

Allen, Woody

44.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

45.

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