Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hermes, Georg

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

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

Woody Allen

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

10.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

12.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

13.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

15.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

16.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

18.

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.

19.

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

David Assael

20.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

21.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

25.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

28.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

32.

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

33.

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

Aaron McGruder

34.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

35.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

36.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

37.

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

Craig Volk

38.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

39.

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

40.

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

41.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

42.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

43.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

Bertolt Brecht

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.