Motivational Quotes

Death

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

- Book Of Common Prayer

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plato

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

Durrell, Lawrence

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Luther, Martin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

10.

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

11.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

13.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

15.

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

Diderot, Denis

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Craig Volk

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

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

Farber, Dave

20.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Fromm, Erich

23.

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

Chandler, Raymond

24.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

33.

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

34.

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

A. Sachs

35.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

Bright, Grant M.

38.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

39.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

42.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

44.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

45.

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

Mitford, William

46.

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

47.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

48.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

49.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

50.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond