Motivational Quotes

Death

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Death

1.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

Butler, Samuel

3.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

4.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

5.

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

Bertolt Brecht

6.

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

Epicurus

7.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

8.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

9.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

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

14.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

16.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

17.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

19.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

20.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

21.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Farber, Dave

30.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

32.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

35.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

36.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

37.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

39.

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.

40.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

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

Hubbard, Kin

45.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

46.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

47.

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

Stephanie Klein

48.

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

49.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

50.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland