Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

Craig Volk

2.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

3.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

4.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

5.

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

Havner, Vance

6.

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

Dryden, John

7.

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

Gray, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

12.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

13.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

14.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

17.

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

Ann Radcliffe

18.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

19.

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

20.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Euripides

29.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

33.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

34.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

35.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

37.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Byron, Lord

42.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

43.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

Auden, W. H.

45.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

46.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

49.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?