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

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

Montgomery, James

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Plato

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

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

13.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

19.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Greene, Graham

23.

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

Ken, Thomas

24.

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

Hook, Sydney

25.

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

26.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

27.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

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

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

31.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

32.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

39.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

40.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

41.

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

42.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

43.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

44.

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

Bayly, Joseph

45.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

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

49.

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

Becht, Ben

50.

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