Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bible

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Byron, Lord

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Edith Sitwell

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

14.

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

Epicurus

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

21.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

Auden, W. H.

24.

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

25.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

Bagnold, Enid

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

34.

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

35.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

Camus, Albert

37.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

39.

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

Foster, John W.

40.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

41.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

42.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

Thrale, Hester i

45.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

49.

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

Keats, John

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.