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

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

Allen, Woody

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hook, Sydney

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

10.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

11.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

12.

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

13.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

17.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

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

19.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

21.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

23.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

26.

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

27.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

28.

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

Marvell, Andrew

29.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

'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

31.

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

32.

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

Auden, W. H.

33.

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.

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

Edith Sitwell

36.

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

37.

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

Woody Allen

38.

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

George Burns

39.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

41.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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

Plato

45.

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

46.

We are all dead men on leave.