Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

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

Milton, John

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Dryden, John

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

Durrell, Lawrence

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

10.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

15.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

16.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

17.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

18.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

20.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Plato

22.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

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

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

28.

'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

29.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

30.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

32.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

33.

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

Carson, Johnny

34.

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

35.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

36.

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

37.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

38.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

39.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

40.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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.

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

44.

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

Epicurus

45.

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

George Burns

46.

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

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Bagnold, Enid

48.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

49.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

50.

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.