Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

John Scalzi

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Publilius Syrus

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

12.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

13.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

16.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

17.

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

18.

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

Woody Allen

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Forster, Edward M.

22.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

23.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

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

Bertolt Brecht

34.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

39.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.