Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Berra, Yogi

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

12.

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

13.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

14.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

15.

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.

16.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

17.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

19.

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

20.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

21.

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

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

24.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

25.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

26.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

31.

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

32.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

33.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

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

35.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

36.

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

37.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

38.

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

39.

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

Palmerston, Lord

40.

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

Johnny Carson

41.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

42.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

43.

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

Craig Volk

44.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

48.

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

49.

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

Dryden, John

50.

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