Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Buffett, Jimmy

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

10.

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

11.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

12.

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

13.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

14.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

17.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

19.

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

20.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

21.

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

22.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

23.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

24.

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

Euripides

25.

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

Mitford, William

26.

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

David Assael

27.

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

28.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

29.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

30.

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

31.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

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

33.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

34.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

36.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

37.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Bible

39.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

40.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

41.

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.

42.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

47.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

48.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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