Motivational Quotes

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Fielding, Henry

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

12.

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

13.

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

Edith Sitwell

14.

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

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

17.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Horace

19.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

20.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

26.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

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

33.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Bryant, William C.

35.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

36.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Havner, Vance

39.

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

40.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Marvell, Andrew

45.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

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

Randy K. Milholland

47.

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