Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Duffecy, James

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

11.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

12.

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

Farber, Dave

13.

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

Hook, Sydney

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

17.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

23.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

24.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

34.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

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

Matt Frewer

36.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

37.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

41.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

45.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

46.

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

Barker, Clive

47.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

48.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

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