Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

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

Byron, Lord

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.

'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

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Duffecy, James

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

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

12.

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

13.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

15.

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

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

Charles II

17.

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

18.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

20.

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

Marvell, Andrew

21.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

22.

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

Johnny Carson

23.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

25.

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

Palmerston, Lord

26.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

27.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

28.

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

29.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

30.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

31.

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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

33.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

34.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

35.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

36.

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

37.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

38.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

39.

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

John Scalzi

40.

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

Havner, Vance

41.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

43.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

44.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

48.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

49.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace