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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Gide, Andre

10.

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

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Plato

13.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

14.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

15.

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

16.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Donne, John

23.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

Barker, Clive

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

29.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

30.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

37.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

39.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

42.

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

Matt Frewer

43.

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

Bible

44.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

45.

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

Farber, Dave

46.

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

47.

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

Plato

48.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

49.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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