Motivational Quotes

Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bible

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

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

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Duffecy, James

16.

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

17.

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

David Assael

18.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

19.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

20.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

21.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

22.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

23.

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

Bible

24.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

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

Ken, Thomas

26.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

27.

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

Auerbach, Red

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

34.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

35.

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

Edith Sitwell

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

Bertolt Brecht

38.

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.