Motivational Quotes

Death

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

- Antonin Artaud

Best Quotes about Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

11.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

12.

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

Mitford, William

13.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

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

16.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

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

Horace

18.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Hoffer, Eric

20.

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

21.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

22.

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

23.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

25.

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

Stephanie Klein

26.

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

27.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

28.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

29.

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

Bertolt Brecht

30.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

31.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

32.

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

Sophocles

33.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

34.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

38.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

39.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

40.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

41.

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

42.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

43.

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

44.

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

Milton, John

45.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

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An evil life is a kind of death.