Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

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

Woody Allen

3.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

4.

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

Camus, Albert

5.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

6.

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

Epicurus

7.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

8.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

9.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

10.

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

11.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

12.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

16.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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17.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

21.

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

22.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

27.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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

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32.

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

33.

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

34.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

38.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

41.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

44.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

45.

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

Byron, Lord

46.

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.

47.

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

Carson, Johnny

48.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

49.

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

John Scalzi

50.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.