Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Carson, Johnny

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Randy K. Milholland

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Ken, Thomas

10.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

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

Donne, John

12.

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

13.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

14.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

18.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

19.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

21.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Macdonald, George

26.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

27.

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

Johnny Carson

28.

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.

29.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

30.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

Craig Volk

33.

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

Bagnold, Enid

34.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

35.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

37.

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

38.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

39.

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

Beaumont, Francis

40.

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

Manilius, Marcus

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Farber, Dave

43.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

44.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

45.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

46.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

47.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

49.

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

50.

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