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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Keats, John

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eliot, George

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

11.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

16.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

17.

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

Palmerston, Lord

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

20.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

21.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

25.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

26.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

28.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

29.

'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

30.

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

31.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

32.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Stephanie Klein

37.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

38.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

43.

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.

44.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

45.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

46.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

47.

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

Darrow, Clarence

48.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

50.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle