Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Byron, Lord

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Woody Allen

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Camus, Albert

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

Publilius Syrus

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

10.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

11.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

Chandler, Raymond

14.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

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

Bagnold, Enid

16.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

17.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

19.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

20.

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

Epicurus

21.

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

Bertolt Brecht

22.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

24.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

26.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

30.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

35.

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

Carson, Johnny

36.

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

Allen, Woody

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

40.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

41.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

42.

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

Bible

43.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

44.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

45.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

46.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

47.

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

Keats, John

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