Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Belloc, Hilaire

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Byron, Lord

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

11.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

12.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

13.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

14.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

16.

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

Picabia, Francis

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

19.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

20.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

21.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

22.

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

Greene, Graham

23.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

28.

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

Ken, Thomas

29.

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

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

Mitford, William

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

33.

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

34.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

Macdonald, George

36.

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

Allen, Woody

37.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

Darrow, Clarence

39.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

40.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

41.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

42.

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

Heidegger, Martin

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Charles II

46.

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

47.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

49.

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

Euripides

50.

Death is the cure for all diseases.