Motivational Quotes

Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

13.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

14.

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

15.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

16.

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

Bible

17.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

18.

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

Beaumont, Francis

19.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

20.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

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

Heidegger, Martin

23.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

Frost, Robert

25.

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

26.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

27.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

30.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

31.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

32.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

33.

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

Epicurus

34.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

36.

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

Frida Kahlo

37.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

39.

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

Farber, Dave

40.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

41.

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

Chandler, Raymond

42.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

43.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

44.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

Craig Volk

46.

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

47.

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

Cocteau, Jean

48.

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

49.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

50.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.