Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

2.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

3.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

4.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

5.

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

6.

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

Oscar Wilde

7.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

8.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

9.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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.

11.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

12.

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

George Burns

13.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

14.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

15.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

16.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

17.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

20.

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

Becht, Ben

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Horace

24.

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.

25.

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

Bertolt Brecht

26.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

27.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

29.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

30.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

31.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

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

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

36.

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

Palmerston, Lord

37.

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