Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Death

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bronte, Emily

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

John Scalzi

10.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

11.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

14.

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

15.

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

16.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

18.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

19.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

21.

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

22.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

27.

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

Aaron McGruder

28.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

29.

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

30.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

31.

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

32.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

33.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

35.

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

Randy K. Milholland

36.

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

Plato

37.

'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

38.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

39.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

40.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

41.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

42.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

45.

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

46.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

47.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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