Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

1.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

2.

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

3.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

4.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

5.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

6.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

7.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

8.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

9.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

11.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Canetti, Elias

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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.

16.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

22.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

23.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

25.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

A. Sachs

28.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

29.

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.

30.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

31.

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

Becht, Ben

32.

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

33.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Hook, Sydney

35.

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

Woody Allen

36.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

37.

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

38.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

39.

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.

40.

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

Gide, Andre

41.

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

Diderot, Denis

42.

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

Bayly, Joseph

43.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

44.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

45.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

46.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

47.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

49.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

50.

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