Motivational Quotes

Death

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

- Gabrielle Zevin

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

John Scalzi

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

Barker, Clive

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Bible

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

14.

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

15.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

16.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

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

19.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

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

Cocteau, Jean

21.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

22.

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

Forster, Edward M.

23.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Johnny Carson

25.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

26.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

27.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

30.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Bayly, Joseph

34.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

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

37.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

38.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

39.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

40.

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