Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Gray, Thomas

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

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

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

Hook, Sydney

10.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

Bible

13.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

14.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Mitford, William

16.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

17.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

18.

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

19.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

21.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

22.

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

Montgomery, James

23.

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

24.

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

Frida Kahlo

25.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

28.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

29.

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

30.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

Ann Radcliffe

32.

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

Becht, Ben

33.

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

Palmerston, Lord

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

36.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

37.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

38.

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

39.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

41.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

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

Darrow, Clarence

45.

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

Keats, John

46.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

48.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark