Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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

Horace

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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.

10.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

11.

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

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

19.

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

20.

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

Bertolt Brecht

21.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

22.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

23.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

24.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

25.

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

Charles II

26.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Chandler, Raymond

28.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

32.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

33.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

34.

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

Sophocles

35.

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

Craig Volk

36.

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

Havner, Vance

37.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

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

Farber, Dave

39.

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

Bright, Grant M.

40.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

45.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.