Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Berra, Yogi

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

10.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

15.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

17.

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

David Assael

18.

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

Manilius, Marcus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

22.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

24.

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

25.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

26.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

27.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

29.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

30.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

31.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

George Burns

33.

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

Miller, Joaquin

34.

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

Sophocles

35.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

36.

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

37.

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

Beaumont, Francis

38.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

40.

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

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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

42.

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

43.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

45.

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

Fielding, Henry

46.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.