Motivational Quotes

Death

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

- Plath, Sylvia

Best Quotes about Death

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Macdonald, George

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

10.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Bertolt Brecht

15.

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

Edith Sitwell

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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.

22.

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

Miller, Joaquin

23.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

24.

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

25.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

27.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Bright, Grant M.

29.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

30.

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

Craig Volk

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

34.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

35.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

37.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

40.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

41.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

42.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

43.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

44.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

46.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

47.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

48.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

49.

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

50.

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

Picabia, Francis