Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Marvell, Andrew

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

10.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

11.

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

12.

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

Montgomery, James

13.

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

14.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

15.

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

16.

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

Miller, Joaquin

17.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

20.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

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

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

27.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

28.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

29.

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

Johnny Carson

30.

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.

31.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

32.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

Bronte, Emily

36.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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.

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

41.

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

Bright, Grant M.

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

44.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

45.

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

46.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

48.

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

Darrow, Clarence

49.

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

50.

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

Horace