Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

10.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

11.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

12.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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

Montgomery, James

14.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

15.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

18.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

19.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

20.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Bible

22.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

24.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

Woody Allen

27.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

31.

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.

32.

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.

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

35.

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

36.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

37.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

38.

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

Bronte, Emily

39.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

40.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Bryant, William C.

43.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

44.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

45.

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

46.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

47.

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

Plato

48.

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

Eliot, George

49.

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