Motivational Quotes

Death

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

- George Burns

Best Quotes about Death

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Woody Allen

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

Bright, Grant M.

13.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

14.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

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

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

19.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

21.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

22.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

23.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

Craig Volk

25.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Forster, Edward M.

27.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

28.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

29.

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

30.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

31.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

32.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Woody Allen

36.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

37.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

38.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

39.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

42.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

44.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

46.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

47.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

48.

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

Beaumont, Francis

49.

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

Bible

50.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia