Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dryden, John

10.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

11.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

13.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

18.

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

Craig Volk

19.

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

Johnny Carson

20.

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

Pamela Ribon

21.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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]

Bible

27.

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

Forster, Edward M.

28.

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

Hazlitt, William

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

30.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

31.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

32.

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

33.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

34.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

35.

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

36.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

38.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

39.

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

Frida Kahlo

40.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

41.

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

42.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

43.

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

Epicurus

44.

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

Havner, Vance

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Horace

48.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

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

50.

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