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

1.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

2.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

3.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

4.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

5.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

6.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

7.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

8.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

9.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

Keats, John

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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

Auerbach, Red

15.

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

Horace

16.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

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

Euripides

22.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

23.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

25.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Hubbard, Kin

30.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

36.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

42.

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

Eliot, George

43.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

44.

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