Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Woody Allen

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Matt Frewer

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Plato

12.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

13.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

14.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

15.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

16.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

17.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

19.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

25.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

26.

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.

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

29.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

30.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

31.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

32.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

33.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

34.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

36.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bryant, William C.

40.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

41.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

42.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

46.

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

47.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

48.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

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

50.

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

Frida Kahlo