Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hamilton, Hugh

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Euripides

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

10.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

11.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

12.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Bible

15.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

16.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

17.

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

Dryden, John

18.

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

Johnny Carson

19.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

20.

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

Frost, Robert

21.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

22.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

23.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

24.

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

25.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

26.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

27.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

30.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

31.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

32.

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

33.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

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

Marvell, Andrew

36.

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

Woody Allen

37.

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

Farber, Dave

38.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Becht, Ben

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

44.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Palmerston, Lord

47.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

49.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

50.

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