Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

10.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

16.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

19.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

20.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

21.

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

22.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

23.

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

Becht, Ben

24.

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

Horace

25.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

26.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

27.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

29.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

30.

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

31.

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

Barker, Clive

32.

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

33.

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

Stephanie Klein

34.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

35.

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

36.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

37.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

38.

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

Forster, Edward M.

39.

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

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

41.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

42.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

43.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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