Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all dead men on leave.

- Levine, Eugene

Best Quotes about Death

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

W. Somerset Maugham

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Stephanie Klein

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

10.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

13.

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

14.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

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

16.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

17.

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

Farber, Dave

18.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

19.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

23.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

26.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

27.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

29.

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

Manilius, Marcus

30.

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

31.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

32.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Foster, John W.

38.

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

39.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

42.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

43.

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

44.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

45.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

46.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

47.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

48.

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

Oscar Wilde

49.

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

50.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas