Motivational Quotes

Death

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Death

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Allen, Woody

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Gide, Andre

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

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

10.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

11.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

12.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

13.

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

14.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

15.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

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

25.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

26.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

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.

29.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

30.

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

Aaron McGruder

31.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

32.

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

Matt Frewer

33.

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

Young, Edward

34.

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

35.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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.

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

39.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

40.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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

Hermes, Georg

42.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

43.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

44.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

47.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

48.

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

49.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles