Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Forster, Edward M.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

13.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

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

Keats, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Canetti, Elias

23.

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

24.

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

Epicurus

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Auerbach, Red

27.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

28.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

29.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

31.

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

Bible

32.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

36.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

37.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

39.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

41.

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

Frida Kahlo

42.

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

43.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

44.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

46.

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

47.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

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

Bright, Grant M.

49.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

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