Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Bible

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

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bible

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Plato

10.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

12.

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

Bright, Grant M.

13.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

14.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

17.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

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

Plato

20.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

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

22.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

23.

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

Woody Allen

24.

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

Ken, Thomas

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

31.

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

Craig Volk

32.

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

33.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Mitford, William

35.

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

Bryant, William C.

36.

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

37.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

38.

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

39.

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

Palmerston, Lord

40.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

41.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

42.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

43.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

44.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

46.

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

Hubbard, Kin

47.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

48.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

Life is a loss of time.