Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bryant, William C.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Stephanie Klein

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Darrow, Clarence

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Hook, Sydney

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

13.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

14.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

15.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

16.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

17.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

18.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

21.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Macdonald, George

27.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

28.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

Forster, Edward M.

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

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

33.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

34.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

39.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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.

44.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

45.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

46.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

49.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

50.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon