Motivational Quotes

Death

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Death

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Bible

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

10.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

13.

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

14.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Horace

17.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

21.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

22.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

23.

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

Farber, Dave

24.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

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

27.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

29.

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

30.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

32.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

33.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

34.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Mitford, William

38.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

39.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

40.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

Hermes, Georg

42.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

44.

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

Camus, Albert

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

49.

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

50.

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

Ann Radcliffe