Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Barker, Clive

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

11.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

15.

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

16.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

17.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

21.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

22.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

25.

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

26.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

27.

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

28.

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

Fromm, Erich

29.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

30.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

32.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

34.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

36.

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

37.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

38.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

39.

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

Edith Sitwell

40.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

41.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

42.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

44.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

45.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

46.

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

Randy K. Milholland

47.

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

48.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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

Macdonald, George