Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Barker, Clive

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

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Oscar Wilde

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

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

11.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

12.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

15.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

16.

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

17.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Horace

21.

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

22.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

24.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

25.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

26.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

Hermes, Georg

28.

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

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

34.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

Havner, Vance

37.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

38.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

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

40.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

41.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

42.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

43.

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

Bright, Grant M.

44.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

45.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.