Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Guthrie, Arlo

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

10.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

11.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

12.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

13.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

14.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

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

Young, Edward

18.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

19.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

20.

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

21.

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

Ken, Thomas

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Forster, Edward M.

29.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Fromm, Erich

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

34.

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

Farber, Dave

35.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

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.

37.

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

Edith Sitwell

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

42.

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

Publilius Syrus

43.

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

Montgomery, James

44.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

45.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.