Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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.

16.

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

Aaron McGruder

17.

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

Bagnold, Enid

18.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

19.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

20.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

22.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

23.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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

32.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

35.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

Hook, Sydney

40.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

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

Palmerston, Lord

43.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

47.

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

48.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

49.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

50.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert