Motivational Quotes

Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Hook, Sydney

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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.

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.

10.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

14.

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

Ann Radcliffe

15.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

16.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

17.

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

18.

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

Bright, Grant M.

19.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

20.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

22.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

24.

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

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Woody Allen

26.

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

Johnny Carson

27.

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

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

30.

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

31.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

33.

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

34.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

35.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

36.

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

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

39.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

40.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

44.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

46.

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

47.

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

Cocteau, Jean

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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