Motivational Quotes

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

16.

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

17.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Bryant, William C.

22.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

23.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

25.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

26.

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

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

29.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

31.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

32.

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

33.

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

David Assael

34.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Palmerston, Lord

37.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

38.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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.

40.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

41.

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

42.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

43.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

45.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

46.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

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

49.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

50.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red