Motivational Quotes

Death

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Berra, Yogi

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

George Burns

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

13.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

14.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Foster, John W.

17.

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

Auerbach, Red

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

Montgomery, James

20.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

21.

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

Bertolt Brecht

22.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

23.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

25.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

27.

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

28.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

31.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

37.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

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

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

44.

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.

45.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

46.

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

Publilius Syrus

47.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

48.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

49.

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

Epictetus

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus