Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fielding, Henry

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

Plato

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

Jefferson, Joseph

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

14.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

16.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

17.

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

Bronte, Emily

18.

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

Chandler, Raymond

19.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

23.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

24.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

26.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

27.

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

28.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

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

30.

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

Gray, Thomas

31.

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

Bertolt Brecht

32.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

33.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

34.

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

35.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

37.

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

Ken, Thomas

38.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

42.

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

Eliot, George

43.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

44.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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

48.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

49.

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

Donne, John

50.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas