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.

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aaron McGruder

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bright, Grant M.

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.

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.

10.

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

11.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

12.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

15.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Darrow, Clarence

17.

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

Palmerston, Lord

18.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

19.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

22.

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

Barker, Clive

23.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

24.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

25.

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

26.

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

Sophocles

27.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

29.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

30.

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

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

32.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

33.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

34.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

36.

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

Woody Allen

37.

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

Eliot, George

38.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

39.

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

40.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

41.

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

42.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

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.

44.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

45.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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

49.

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