Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Sophocles

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

13.

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

A. Sachs

14.

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

15.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

16.

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

19.

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

20.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

21.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

25.

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

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

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

33.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

34.

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

35.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

36.

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

Horace

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

39.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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

42.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

44.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

48.

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

Barker, Clive

49.

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

50.

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

Landor, Walter Savage