Motivational Quotes

Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Death

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

Bayly, Joseph

12.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

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

14.

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

Bertolt Brecht

15.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

16.

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

17.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

18.

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

Frida Kahlo

19.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

20.

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

21.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Manilius, Marcus

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Stephanie Klein

29.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

30.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

32.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

33.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

34.

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

35.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

39.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

44.

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

Euripides

45.

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

Allen, Woody

46.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

47.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

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

Bagnold, Enid

49.

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

50.

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

Marvell, Andrew