Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

2.

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

3.

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

Woody Allen

4.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

5.

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

Pamela Ribon

6.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

7.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

8.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

13.

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

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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

16.

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

Duffecy, James

17.

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

18.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

19.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

20.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

21.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

22.

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

Bible

23.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

25.

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

Randy K. Milholland

26.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

28.

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

Keats, John

29.

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

Bible

30.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

31.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

32.

'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

33.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

34.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

35.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

36.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

37.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

40.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

42.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

43.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

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

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.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

49.

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

Bayly, Joseph

50.

An evil life is a kind of death.