Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Frost, Robert

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Macdonald, George

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

Woody Allen

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

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

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

14.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

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

Ann Radcliffe

18.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

20.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

21.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

22.

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

Bhagavad Gita

23.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

24.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

25.

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

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

27.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Epicurus

31.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

35.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

36.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

37.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

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

39.

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

Gray, Thomas

40.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

43.

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

Euripides

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

48.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

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

Bible

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel