Motivational Quotes

Death

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Woody Allen

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

David Assael

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hook, Sydney

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

13.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

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.

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

22.

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

23.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

32.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Donne, John

34.

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

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

37.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

39.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

40.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Horace

42.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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

Macdonald, George

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

46.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

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

Publilius Syrus

48.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

49.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

50.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James