Motivational Quotes

Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

- Hamilton, Hugh

Best Quotes about Death

1.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

2.

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

3.

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

4.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

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

Canetti, Elias

6.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

7.

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

Forster, Edward M.

8.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

9.

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

Havner, Vance

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

14.

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

Aaron McGruder

15.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

23.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

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

Frida Kahlo

26.

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

27.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

29.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

30.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

31.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

33.

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

34.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

35.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

36.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

37.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.