Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Bright, Grant M.

18.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

20.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

21.

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

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Diderot, Denis

26.

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

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

31.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

34.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

35.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

36.

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

Thrale, Hester i

37.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

38.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

40.

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

Dryden, John

41.

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

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

44.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

47.

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

48.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

49.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

50.

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