Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- George Burns

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Keats, 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

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

10.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

11.

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

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

14.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

15.

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

16.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

17.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

24.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

25.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

Craig Volk

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

29.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

33.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Greene, Graham

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Becht, Ben

39.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

40.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

41.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

43.

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

Allen, Woody

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