Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Craig Volk

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Byron, Lord

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

Farber, Dave

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

10.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

17.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Chandler, Raymond

21.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

24.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

Publilius Syrus

26.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

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

30.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

31.

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

32.

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

A. Sachs

33.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

42.

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

43.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

46.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

47.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

48.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

50.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj