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 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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Frida Kahlo

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

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

Auden, W. H.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

10.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

11.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

12.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

13.

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

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

16.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

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

18.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

19.

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

20.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

21.

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.

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Darrow, Clarence

24.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Camus, Albert

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Young, Edward

32.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

34.

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

35.

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

Farber, Dave

36.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

37.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

38.

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

39.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

40.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

41.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

42.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

45.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

46.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

47.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

49.

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

A. Sachs

50.

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