Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Horace

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

11.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

12.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

14.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

15.

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

Johnny Carson

16.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

17.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

18.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

24.

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

Edith Sitwell

25.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

27.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

28.

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

29.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

David Assael

31.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

32.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

Auden, W. H.

38.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

39.

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

40.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

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

42.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

43.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

47.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

48.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

49.

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

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

Carson, Johnny