Motivational Quotes

Death

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

Donne, John

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Auden, W. H.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Woody Allen

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

Butler, Samuel

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

13.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Palmerston, Lord

17.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

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

20.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

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

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 displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

29.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

30.

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

31.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

33.

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

34.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

35.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

40.

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

Berra, Yogi

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

43.

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

Thrale, Hester i

44.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Pamela Ribon

46.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

47.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

48.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

49.

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

Johnny Carson

50.

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