Motivational Quotes

Death

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

10.

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

Stephanie Klein

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

16.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

17.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

19.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

20.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

21.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

22.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

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

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

28.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Barker, Clive

30.

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

Gide, Andre

31.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

32.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

33.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

34.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

35.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

36.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

39.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

40.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

41.

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

Oscar Wilde

42.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

43.

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

Dryden, John

44.

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

45.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

46.

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

47.

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

Bertolt Brecht

48.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Montgomery, James

50.

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.