Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Stephanie Klein

Best Quotes about Death

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Woody Allen

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

11.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

12.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

13.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

14.

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

Beaumont, Francis

15.

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

16.

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

Woody Allen

17.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

18.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

24.

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

David Assael

25.

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

26.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

27.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

28.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

31.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

34.

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

35.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

36.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

37.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

38.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

39.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

40.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

41.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

43.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

44.

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

45.

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

Horace

46.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

47.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

49.

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

50.

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

Montgomery, James