Motivational Quotes

Death

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Hook, Sydney

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

10.

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

11.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

14.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

15.

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

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

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

Bryant, William C.

19.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

23.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

George Burns

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

29.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

30.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

31.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

32.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

38.

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

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Auerbach, Red

40.

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