Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Marvell, Andrew

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Foster, John W.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

10.

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

Dryden, John

11.

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.

12.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

Macdonald, George

17.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

18.

'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

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

21.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

22.

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

Forster, Edward M.

23.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

24.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

25.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

32.

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

Farber, Dave

33.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

34.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

35.

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

George Burns

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

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

Addison, Joseph

38.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

39.

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

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

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

Auerbach, Red

42.

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

Horace

43.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

44.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

45.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

47.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

48.

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

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius