Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

1.

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

2.

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

Camus, Albert

3.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

4.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

5.

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

6.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

8.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

9.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

10.

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

Craig Volk

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

13.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

14.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

15.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

16.

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

17.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Ann Radcliffe

21.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

24.

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

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

26.

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

27.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

29.

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

Stephanie Klein

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Thrale, Hester i

34.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

38.

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

Mitford, William

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

42.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

43.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

45.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

48.

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

49.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

50.

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

Craig Volk