Motivational Quotes

Death

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Sophocles

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dryden, John

10.

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

Chandler, Raymond

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

13.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

15.

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

Forster, Edward M.

16.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

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

19.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

20.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

21.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

27.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

35.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

36.

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

Carson, Johnny

37.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

38.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

39.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

40.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

42.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

43.

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

Lowell, James Russell

44.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

Allen, Woody

49.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

50.

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

Leonardo da Vinci