Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Gray, Thomas

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bible

10.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

11.

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

Milton, John

12.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

14.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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.

16.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

18.

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

19.

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

20.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

22.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

23.

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

24.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

25.

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

Keats, John

26.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

27.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

29.

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

Canetti, Elias

30.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

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

32.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

33.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

37.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

38.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

39.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Sophocles

41.

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

Bayly, Joseph

42.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

43.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.