Motivational Quotes

Death

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

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

11.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

12.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

13.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

14.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

15.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

16.

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

Milton, John

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Duffecy, James

21.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

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

Horace

24.

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

25.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

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

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

32.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

33.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

35.

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

36.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

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

40.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

44.

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

Bryant, William C.

45.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

46.

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

A. Sachs

47.

'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

48.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

49.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

50.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous