Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Jefferson, Joseph

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

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

12.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

13.

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

Stephanie Klein

14.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

15.

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

Donne, John

16.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

17.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

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

Farber, Dave

19.

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

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.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

23.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

29.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

30.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

Hermes, Georg

33.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Hook, Sydney

35.

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

Bayly, Joseph

36.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

37.

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

38.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

42.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

43.

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

44.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

45.

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

46.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

47.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

48.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

49.

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