Motivational Quotes

Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

George Burns

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

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

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

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

11.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Duffecy, James

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

17.

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

Bertolt Brecht

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

21.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

24.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

31.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

32.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

33.

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

34.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

35.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

36.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

39.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

40.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

41.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

42.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

43.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Euripides

47.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

48.

'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

49.

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

Woody Allen

50.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i