Motivational Quotes

Death

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

10.

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.

11.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

12.

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

Bryant, William C.

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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

Farber, Dave

16.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

Palmerston, Lord

18.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

19.

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

George Burns

20.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hermes, Georg

24.

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

Barker, Clive

25.

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

David Assael

26.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

28.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

32.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

33.

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

34.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

35.

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

Darrow, Clarence

36.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

37.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

38.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

39.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

Woody Allen

42.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

44.

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

Johnny Carson

45.

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

46.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

47.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

48.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

49.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

50.

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