Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frida Kahlo

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Oscar Wilde

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Woody Allen

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

10.

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

11.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

12.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

14.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

15.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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.

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

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

24.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

25.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

Craig Volk

30.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

34.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

35.

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

36.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

37.

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

David Assael

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

Mitford, William

40.

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

Manilius, Marcus

41.

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

42.

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

Dryden, John

43.

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

44.

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

Epicurus

45.

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

46.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

47.

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