Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

2.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

3.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

4.

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

Bible

5.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

6.

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

Barker, Clive

7.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

8.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

9.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

17.

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

18.

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

19.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

20.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

21.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

22.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

23.

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

24.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

25.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

Carson, Johnny

27.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

28.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

30.

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.

31.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

32.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

33.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

35.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

36.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

37.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

38.

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