Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

Mitford, William

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Allen, Woody

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

17.

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

Auerbach, Red

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

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

Milton, John

21.

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

22.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

David Assael

26.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

29.

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

Bertolt Brecht

30.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

34.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

35.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

36.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

38.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

39.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

40.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Bible

42.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

43.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

45.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

46.

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

Darrow, Clarence

47.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

48.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

49.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

50.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo