Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Hermes, Georg

10.

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

11.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

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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

14.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

16.

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

Manilius, Marcus

17.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

20.

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

21.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

26.

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

Chandler, Raymond

27.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

30.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

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.

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

35.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

36.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

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

41.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

42.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

44.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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