Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Duffecy, James

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Johnny Carson

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

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

11.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

12.

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

Bayly, Joseph

13.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

15.

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.

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

21.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

23.

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

Cocteau, Jean

24.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

25.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

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

32.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

33.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

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

Carson, Johnny

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

39.

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

Plato

40.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

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

Woody Allen

42.

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

43.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

44.

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

Fielding, Henry

45.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

50.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder