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

1.

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

Hermes, Georg

2.

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.

3.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

4.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

5.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

6.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

7.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

8.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

9.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

11.

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.

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

14.

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

Beaumont, Francis

15.

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

Woody Allen

16.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

17.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

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

Darrow, Clarence

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Marvell, Andrew

26.

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

Gide, Andre

27.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

28.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

29.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

30.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

32.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

33.

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

Miller, Joaquin

34.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

35.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

36.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

37.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

39.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

40.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

42.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

43.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

44.

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

45.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

46.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

'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

49.

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

Allen, Woody

50.

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

George Burns