Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Beaumont, Francis

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

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.

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

Plato

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

10.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

11.

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

Donne, John

12.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

17.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

19.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

21.

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

Epicurus

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Bagnold, Enid

25.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

26.

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.

27.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

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

29.

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

Horace

30.

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

31.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

32.

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

Randy K. Milholland

33.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

34.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

36.

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

37.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

38.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Frida Kahlo

41.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

42.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

43.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

44.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

45.

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

46.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

47.

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

Gray, Thomas

48.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

49.

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

Hoffer, Eric

50.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George