Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mitford, William

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

18.

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

19.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

20.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

21.

'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

22.

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

John Scalzi

23.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Montgomery, James

26.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

27.

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

Macdonald, George

28.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

29.

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

30.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

31.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

32.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

33.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

34.

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

Epicurus

35.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

37.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

39.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

40.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

Frida Kahlo

47.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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

49.

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

50.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George