Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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.

13.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

14.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

15.

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

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Stephanie Klein

19.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

20.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

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

22.

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

Euripides

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

24.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

25.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

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

Barker, Clive

27.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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

Heidegger, Martin

30.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

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

Frida Kahlo

36.

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

Ann Radcliffe

37.

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

38.

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

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

Montgomery, James

44.

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

Diderot, Denis

45.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

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

Craig Volk

47.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

48.

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

Lucan, F. L.

49.

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