Motivational Quotes

Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

A. Sachs

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

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

Becht, Ben

12.

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

John Scalzi

13.

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

Montgomery, James

14.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Bright, Grant M.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

23.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

24.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

25.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

26.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

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

Heidegger, Martin

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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

36.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

37.

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

Horace

38.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

39.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

41.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

42.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

43.

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

44.

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

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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

Thrale, Hester i

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

50.

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