Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Bible

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

10.

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

Diderot, Denis

11.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Keats, John

20.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

21.

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

22.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Havner, Vance

24.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

33.

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

34.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

35.

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.

36.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

37.

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

38.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

39.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

40.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

42.

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

Carson, Johnny

43.

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.

44.

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

Dryden, John

45.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

46.

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

Bible

47.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

49.

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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset