Motivational Quotes

Death

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

Frida Kahlo

11.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

12.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Johnny Carson

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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

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

20.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

21.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

23.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

John Scalzi

26.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

27.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

33.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

34.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

37.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Craig Volk

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

43.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

44.

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

Luther, Martin

45.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

48.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

49.

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

50.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus