Motivational Quotes

Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Marvell, Andrew

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Plato

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

Lee, Nathaniel

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

10.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

11.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

12.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Picabia, Francis

14.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

16.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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.

19.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

20.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

22.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

24.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

26.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

27.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

30.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

32.

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

Darrow, Clarence

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

35.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Charles II

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

Horace

41.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

42.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

44.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

45.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

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

47.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

48.

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.