Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Johnny Carson

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

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

Havner, Vance

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

10.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

14.

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

15.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

16.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

19.

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

Plato

20.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

21.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

23.

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

Woody Allen

24.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

25.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

26.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

Horace

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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

32.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

34.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

35.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

36.

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

37.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

41.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

42.

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

Epicurus

43.

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.

44.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

47.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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