Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Craig Volk

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Diderot, Denis

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Auden, W. H.

10.

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

11.

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

Keats, John

12.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

13.

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

14.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

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

18.

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

19.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

20.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

21.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

22.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

24.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

25.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

27.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

28.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Woody Allen

34.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

35.

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

36.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Becht, Ben

38.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

40.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

45.

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

46.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

47.

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

Hook, Sydney

48.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

49.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth