Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

1.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

5.

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

Montgomery, James

6.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

7.

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

Publilius Syrus

8.

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

9.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

10.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

14.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

15.

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

16.

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

Edith Sitwell

17.

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

18.

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

Johnny Carson

19.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

20.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Craig Volk

22.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

24.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

Barker, Clive

26.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

30.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

33.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

35.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

37.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Keats, John

39.

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

Luther, Martin

40.

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