Motivational Quotes

Death

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]

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Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Plato

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

10.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

11.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

12.

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

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Diderot, Denis

17.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

18.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

19.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

20.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

21.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

22.

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

23.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

24.

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

Marvell, Andrew

25.

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

Hermes, Georg

26.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

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

28.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

29.

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

Beaumont, Francis

30.

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

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

Epicurus

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

35.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

38.

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

Montgomery, James

39.

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

40.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

42.

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

Stephanie Klein

43.

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

44.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

48.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

49.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

50.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.