Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Farber, Dave

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Butler, Samuel

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

10.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

11.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Hermes, Georg

13.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

14.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

15.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

16.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

17.

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

Sophocles

18.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

20.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

21.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

22.

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

Donne, John

23.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Bryant, William C.

27.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

28.

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

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

34.

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

Palmerston, Lord

35.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

36.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

37.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

38.

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

39.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

40.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

43.

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

Woody Allen

44.

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

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

46.

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