Motivational Quotes

Death

A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Donne, John

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Dryden, John

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Chandler, Raymond

11.

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

Bayly, Joseph

12.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

13.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

16.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

17.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

18.

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

19.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

20.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

21.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

25.

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

Palmerston, Lord

26.

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.

27.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

28.

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

Bronte, Emily

29.

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

Aaron McGruder

30.

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

31.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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

Beaumont, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

36.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

37.

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

Havner, Vance

38.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

40.

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

Frost, Robert

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

45.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

46.

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

47.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

48.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

49.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

50.

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