Motivational Quotes

Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Charles II

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

Dryden, John

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

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

10.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

11.

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

12.

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

Bertolt Brecht

13.

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.

14.

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

Woody Allen

15.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

16.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Gray, Thomas

20.

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

Forster, Edward M.

21.

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

Chandler, Raymond

22.

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

23.

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

Foster, John W.

24.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

25.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

26.

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

27.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

28.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

29.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

32.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

34.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

35.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

36.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

37.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

38.

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

Woody Allen

39.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

40.

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

Farber, Dave

41.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

44.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

45.

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

46.

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

Auden, W. H.

47.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

48.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

49.

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

50.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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