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

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.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Gray, Thomas

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Woody Allen

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Woody Allen

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.

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

Havner, Vance

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

12.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

17.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

18.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

22.

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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

24.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

27.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

Bayly, Joseph

33.

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

Charles II

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

36.

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

37.

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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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

39.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

40.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

41.

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

42.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

43.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Camus, Albert

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

48.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

49.

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

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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