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

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Charles II

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

10.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

14.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

15.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Milton, John

22.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

Epicurus

25.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

26.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Bright, Grant M.

29.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Woody Allen

31.

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

Beaumont, Francis

32.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

35.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

37.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

38.

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

Marvell, Andrew

39.

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

Johnny Carson

40.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

41.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

42.

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

43.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

44.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

45.

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

46.

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

47.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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