Motivational Quotes

Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Hoffer, Eric

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

11.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

12.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

14.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

17.

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

18.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

26.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

27.

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

Palmer, Laura

28.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

29.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

30.

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

31.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

32.

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

Horace

33.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

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

36.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

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

38.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

40.

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

Beaumont, Francis

41.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

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

Craig Volk

43.

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

44.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

45.

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

46.

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

Chandler, Raymond

47.

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

Horace

48.

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

Epicurus

49.

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