Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Death

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

Palmerston, Lord

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Johnny Carson

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

Euripides

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.

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

11.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

14.

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

Mann, Thomas

15.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

16.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

17.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

19.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Greene, Graham

27.

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

Craig Volk

28.

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

29.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

30.

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

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

Heidegger, Martin

34.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

36.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

37.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

38.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

39.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

40.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

41.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

42.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

43.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

47.

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

Plato

48.

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