Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

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

Donne, John

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

10.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

11.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

A. Sachs

13.

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

14.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

15.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

16.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

17.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

18.

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

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

22.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

23.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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

25.

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

Farber, Dave

26.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

29.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

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

32.

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

33.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

36.

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

Addison, Joseph

37.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

38.

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

Palmerston, Lord

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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

42.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

44.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

45.

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

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

Plato

47.

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

Plato

48.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

49.

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

50.

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